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Consumer prices down 0.3%, imports down 1.4% and domestic exports up 16.4% in June 2019

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Consumer Price Index

Figures released by the Institute show that the All-Items Consumer Price Index for June 2019 stood at 104.7, a decrease of 0.3 percent from 105.0 in June 2018. On average, during this month in 2019, the prices of goods and services regularly purchased by Belizean households were 0.3 percent lower than they were in the same month of 2018.

Click the following link to read more: Consumer Price Index, June 2019

Merchandise Trade

In June 2019, Belize imported goods valuing $168.5 million. This represented a 1.4 percent or $2.3 million decrease from the same month last year. Merchandise imports for the period January to June 2019 totalled $940.3 million, representing a 1.9 percent or $17.2 million increase from the same six-month period last year.

The total value of Belize’s domestic exports for the month of June 2019 was $29.7 million, down 16.4 percent or $5.8 million from the $35.5 million recorded for June 2018. Merchandise exports for the period January to June 2019 totalled $206.5 million, down 8 percent or $17.9 million from that same period last year.

Click the following link to read more: External Trade, June 2019

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