LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 04 January 2018

El Salvador: The central bank (BCR) has reported that the country’s exports increased by 6.13% year-on-year during the January-November 2017 period to reach US$5.24bn. However, the BCR report also points out that the country’s year-on-year imports during the period increased by 7.34% to reach US$9.7bn, resulting in a trade deficit of US$4.45bn, 8.8% higher than the trade deficit recorded during the comparable period the previous year.

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