According to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) monthly economic review, the deficit was mainly on account of a decrease in the value of goods export and current transfer inflows coupled with an increase in imports of goods and services.
Exports of goods and services decreased to 170.5 million US dollars from 253.2 million US dollars in the year ending August 2014. The value of goods exports fell by 60.5 percent to 34.6 million US dollars mainly on account of a decrease in the volume of cloves export.
The volume of cloves export, decreased to 2,400 tonnes from 5,600 tonnes in the year ending August 2014 due to the cyclical nature of the crop. Services receipt was 135.9 million US dollars during the year ending August 2015 compared with 165.6 million US dollars in the corresponding period in 2014, mainly on account of decline in receipts other than travel receipts.
During the period under review, travel receipts mainly from tourism activities increased to 63.7 million US dollars in the year ending August 2015 from 54.0 million US dollars in the preceding year.
During the year ending August 2015, the value of import of goods and services increased to 338.6 million US dollars from 319.7 million US dollars in the year ending August 2014.
Goods import amounted to 282.3 million US dollars up from 262.9 million US dollars in the corresponding period in 2014, mainly due to an increase in the value of intermediate goods.
/Daily News.
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