January trade deficit narrows 9.1%

REUTERS:  Sri Lanka’s January trade deficit narrowed 9.1 percent year-on-year, the Central Bank said yesterday.
The trade deficit narrowed to $695 million in January from $765 million in the same month a year earlier, the Central Bank said in a presentation to the media.
January imports declined 5.5 percent from a year earlier, while exports edged down 2.5 percent, the data showed.