The country's trade balance for April 2022 is negative at EUR 225.7 million with a deficit of EUR 4.5 million for April 2021, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) announced.

For January-April 2022, the trade balance was negative at nearly 1.35 billion euros (1.8 percent of GDP) with a deficit of 517.6 million euros (0.8 percent of GDP) for the same period of 2021

Exports of goods in April amounted to over 3.9 billion euros, an increase of nearly 959 million euros (32.4 percent) compared to April last year.

In January-April 2022, exports amounted to almost 14.4 billion euros (19.1 percent of GDP), an increase of over 3.5 billion euros (32.8 percent) compared to the same period in 2021 

Imports of goods in April amounted to over 4.1 billion euros, an increase of almost 1.2 billion euros (39.8 percent) compared to April 2021 (2962.3 million euros).

In January-April 2022, imports amounted to almost 15.7 billion euros (20.9 percent of GDP), increasing by nearly 4.4 billion euros (38.6 percent) compared to the same period in 2021. 

The balance on services in April was positive at EUR 280.3 million compared to a positive balance of EUR 309.3 million in April 2021. In January-April the balance was positive at EUR 1.250 billion (1.7%). per cent of GDP) with a surplus of nearly 1.1 billion euros (1.6 per cent of GDP) for the first four months of last year.

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The current and capital account of the country for April is positive and amounts to 325.1 million euros with a surplus of 95.7 million euros for April 2021. For January-April 2022 the current and capital account is negative and amounts to 859 EUR 1 million (1.1 per cent of GDP) with a surplus of EUR 358.6 million (0.5 per cent of GDP) for January-April 2021. 

The capital account for April is positive and amounts to EUR 162.2 million with a positive value of EUR 8.8 million for April 2021. For January-April 2022 the capital account is negative - EUR 232.3 million (0 , 3 percent of GDP), with almost the same positive value (236.5 million euros - 0.3 percent of GDP) for January - April 2021

The financial account for April 2022 is positive in the amount of almost EUR 655 million compared to a positive value of EUR 136 million for April 2021. For January - April 2022 the financial account is positive - EUR 375.1 million (0 .5 per cent of GDP), with a positive value of over 1.6 billion euros (2.4 per cent of GDP) for the same period in 2021. 

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