{"id":8439,"date":"2012-02-29T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africas-jan-trade-account-in-13-5-bln-rand-deficit\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:21","slug":"s-africas-jan-trade-account-in-13-5-bln-rand-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-jan-trade-account-in-13-5-bln-rand-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Jan trade account in 13.5 bln rand deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade<br \/>\naccount recorded a 13.5 billion rand ($1.79 billion) deficit in<br \/>\nJanuary compared with a surplus of 4.7 billion rand in December,<br \/>\nthe South African Revenue Service said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trade deficit was at 4.9 billion rand in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exports fell by 14.3 percent month-on-month to 8.98 billion<br \/>\nrand in January this year while imports went up by 15.8 percent<br \/>\nto 9.23 billion rand, SARS data showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a shortfall of 3.8<br \/>\nbillion rand for January but the data is volatile and thus hard<br \/>\nto forecast.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; 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 Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade account recorded a 13.5 billion rand ($1.79 billion) deficit in January compared with a surplus of 4.7 billion rand in December, the South African Revenue Service said on Wednesday. The trade deficit was at 4.9 billion rand in January 2011. Exports fell by 14.3 percent month-on-month to [&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-8439","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\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}