Myanmar's trade deficit recorded over 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in first seven months of present fiscal year (FY) 2019-2020, up from over 651 million U.S. dollars in the corresponding period of last FY, Xinhua reported.
From Oct. 1 to April 24 of this FY, the country earned over 10.4 billion U.S. dollars while its import reached over 11.6 billion U.S. dollars.
In the same period of last FY 2018-2019, Myanmar's foreign trade totalled over 19.35 billion U.S. dollars with export value of over 9.34 billion U.S. dollars and over 10 billion U.S. dollars' import.