MACAO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Macao's total merchandise export amounted to 1.40 billion patacas (about 174 million U.S. dollars) in November, up by 18.1 percent year-on-year, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistical service said on Friday.
The merchandise import went down by 16.7 percent year-on-year to 12.98 billion patacas.
The latest report from Macao's Statistics and Census Service showed that the merchandise trade deficit totaled 11.57 billion patacas in November.
The value of re-exports expanded by 20.0 percent to 1.20 billion patacas, whereas the value of domestic exports rose by 7.8 percent to 205 million patacas. (1 pataca equals 0.12 U.S. dollar) ■
