Reuters report says Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widened 39.8 percent to $787.6 million in December from $563.4 million a year earlier, central bank data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
December exports edged up 2.2 percent from a year earlier to $1.01 billion, surpassing the $1-billion mark, while imports gained 15.9 percent to $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n
For 2014, the trade deficit widened 9.1 percent to $8.3 billion from $7.61 billion a year earlier, while the $76-billion economy<\/a> recorded a balance-of-payment surplus of $1.38 billion last year, up from $985.4 million in 2013. (Reporting by Shihar Aneez<\/a> and Ranga Sirilal<\/a>; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters report says Sri Lanka’s trade deficit widened 39.8 percent to $787.6 million in December from $563.4 million a year earlier, central bank data showed on Wednesday. December exports edged up 2.2 percent from a year earlier to $1.01 billion, surpassing the $1-billion mark, while imports gained 15.9 percent to $1.8 billion. For 2014, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}