*Honduras’ central bank (BCH) has released new figures showing that the country’s exports in the first nine months of the year totalled US$9.61bn, up 12.0% on the same period in 2024. According to the same figures, imports totalled US$15.30bn, up 3.5% on the same period in 2024. This leaves a trade deficit of US$5.69bn, down 8.2% on the same period in 2024. According to the same figures, the country’s leading export was coffee which totalled US$2.1bn, up 84.1% on the same period in 2024. According to the BCH this owed to the rise in international coffee prices, which were up 78.8%, with a 46-kg sack of coffee averaging US$359.65. The US remains Honduras’ main trading partner, accounting for 46.5% of all exports and 32.8% of total imports.
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