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        "msgid": "kl-trade-surplus-falls-11-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-08-03 00:00:00",
        "title": "KL trade surplus falls 11%",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "KL trade surplus falls 11% KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia logged a trade surplus of 5.4 billion ringgit (US$1.4 billion) in June, marking an 11 percent fall from a year earlier, the statistics department said Monday. The surplus, the 20th consecutive monthly rise, was also lower compared to the 6.5 billion ringgit recorded the previous month, it said.",
        "content": "<p>KL trade surplus falls 11%<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia logged a trade surplus of 5.4<br>\nbillion ringgit (US$1.4 billion) in June, marking an 11 percent<br>\nfall from a year earlier, the statistics department said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The surplus, the 20th consecutive monthly rise, was also lower<br>\ncompared to the 6.5 billion ringgit recorded the previous month,<br>\nit said.<\/p>\n<p>\"The reduced surplus was due to a higher growth rate in<br>\nimports of 20.1 percent vis-a-vis exports which rose by 12<br>\npercent,\" the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>June's higher imports, driven mainly by an increase in<br>\nintermediate and capital goods, amounted to 20.9 billion ringgit<br>\nwhile exports were valued at 26.3 billion ringgit.<\/p>\n<p>This brought the trade surplus for the first half of the year<br>\nto 33.7 billion ringgit, up 50.6 percent compared to 22.4 billion<br>\nin the same period last year, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Exports during the six months rose 7.1 percent year-on-year to<br>\n147.1 billion ringgit, but imports eased 1.5 percent to 113.4<br>\nbillion ringgit, it added.<\/p>",
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