Imports Grow Stronger than Exports

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: March 9, 2012; 11:20 ♦ (Vindobona)

January to December 2011: Austrian imports rose by 15%, exports increased by 12%.

Imports Grow Stronger than Exports / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Keith Skipper [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

According to preliminary results by Statistics Austria, total imports amounted to € 130.76bn and total exports amounted to € 122.16bn in the period from January to December 2011. As a consequence, the result of 2008, which was the highest until now, could be exceeded last year. Austrian imports increased by 15.0% and Austrian exports rose by 11.7% compared to the same period in…