{"id":7557,"date":"2012-01-31T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africas-dec-trade-account-in-4-7-bln-rand-surplus\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:24:26","slug":"s-africas-dec-trade-account-in-4-7-bln-rand-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-dec-trade-account-in-4-7-bln-rand-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Dec trade account in 4.7 bln rand surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade<br \/>\naccount recorded a surplus of 4.7 billion rand ($597.77 million)<br \/>\nin December compared with an 8.0 billion rand deficit in<br \/>\nNovember, the South African Revenue Service said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exports fell by 8.0 percent month-on-month to 63.0 billion<br \/>\nrand in December while imports plunged by 23.8 percent to 58.3<br \/>\nbillion rand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a shortfall of 3.0<br \/>\nbillion rand for December but the data is volatile and thus hard<br \/>\nto forecast.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SARS said the trade account had a cumulative deficit of 15.1<br \/>\nbillion rand for 2011 from a surplus of 4.8 billion rand in<br \/>\n2010.<br \/>\n ($1 = 7.8625 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Phumza Macanda; Editing by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade account recorded a surplus of 4.7 billion rand ($597.77 million) in December compared with an 8.0 billion rand deficit in November, the South African Revenue Service said on Tuesday. Exports fell by 8.0 percent month-on-month to 63.0 billion rand in December while imports plunged by 23.8 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}