Daily goods trade data between 1 February and 31 March gives an updated glance at New Zealand’s trade with the world
since the COVID-19 outbreak, Stats NZ said today.
For the week ended 31 March 2020 compared with the equivalent week in 2019:
total imports from all countries were down 3.9 percent ($52 million), from $1.32 billion to $1.27 billiontotal exports to all countries were up 13.2 percent ($172 million), from $1.31 billion to $1.48 billionimports from China were down 27 percent ($64 million), from $236 million to $172 millionexports to China were up 4.2 percent ($14 million), from $336 million to $350 million.
The high-level graphs released today show total export and import values, and export and import values to and from
China.
The data is provisional and should be regarded as an early, indicative estimate of intentions to trade only, subject to
revision.
The data compares trade from 1 February to 31 March 2020 against previous years. This allows for an estimate to be made
of what may have happened to trade, if they had followed typical patterns.
Stats NZ urges caution in making decisions based on this provisional data.
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Stats NZ is not able to publish a weekly trade update next Wednesday (15 April), due to the Easter holiday falling this
weekend. The next release will be on 22 April with data from 1 February to 15 April.The Government Statistician authorises all statistics and data we publish.For more information about these statistics:Visit Effects of COVID-19 on trade: 1 February–31 March 2020 (provisional)See CSV files for download