Singapore's non-oil export up 2.8% in January

Xinhua
18th Feb 2008

SINGAPORE, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's mainstay export, the non-oil domestic export (NODX), grew by 2.8 percent year-on-year in January, reversing the 4.5 percent decrease in December last year, contributed mainly by gains in non-electronic export, the government said on Monday.

On a month-on-month seasonally adjusted basis, the NODX grew by8.4 percent from last month's 1.8 percent contraction, Singapore's trade promotion agency International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) said in a statement. >>>> More