He Danish reveals that the imports registered in April reached 4,942.6 million dollars, which represents a drop of 22.7 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.
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And if we look at the entire period between January and April, imports were 21,387 million dollars and their fall is 15.6 percent.
All the groups that analyze the statistical entity decreased in the fourth month of the year. The most pronounced drop was that of fuels and products from the extractive industries, with a 38.8 percent drop to reach 471.3 million dollars.
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All the groups that analyze the statistical entity decreased in the fourth month of the year.
Santiago Saldarriaga. WEATHER Archive
The product that contributed the most to this drop was Petroleum and its derivatives (-41.6 percent), which contributed negative 35.3 percentage points to the total variation of the group.
The Manufacturing group reached 3,598.5 million dollars, which represents a decrease of 22.7 percent compared to April 2022. Mainly, this result was due to lower purchases of Machinery and transportation equipment (-26 .7 percent) that contributed -11.5 percentage points.
And the external purchases of the group Agriculture, food and beverages a decrease of 9.5 percent appeared when reaching 868.2 million dollars.
The external purchases of the Agricultural, food and beverages group presented a decrease of 9.5 percent, reaching 868.2 million dollars.
Juan Pablo Rueda WEATHER
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This result is explained by lower imports Oils, fats and waxes of animal and vegetable origin (-64.0 percent), which contributed -6.1 percentage points to the variation of the group.
Similarly, beverages and tobacco fell 34.4 percent and inedible raw materials another 12.4 percent.
According to Dane, in April a deficit in the Colombian trade balance of 923.3 million dollars, while in April 2022 it was 446.5 million dollars.
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