Hanoi (VNA) – Singapore's non-oil domesticexports (NODX) in September rose 5.9 percent from a year earlier, driven mainlyby electronics shipments, data from Enterprise Singapore showed.
The NODX growth was lower than the 7.7-percentincrease in August and the 10.8-percent rise forecast by economists in aReuters poll.
Exports of electronics jumped 21.4 percent froma low base a year ago.
On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis,the country’s exports contracted 11.3 percent in September after a 10.5-percentincrease in the previous month. The pace of drop was the steepest since March2019, Enterprise Singapore said in a statement.
The Singaporean Ministry of Trade and Industrysaid on October 14 that the economy shrank at a slower pace of 7 percent in thethird quarter from the same period last year, following the phased reopening ofthe economy after the COVID-19 "circuit breaker" period.
This is also an improvement from the13.3-percent contraction in Q2 and close to a 7.6-percent contraction estimatedby private-sector economists surveyed by the Monetary Authority ofSingapore last month.
The ministry predicted the economy may shrink bybetween 7 percent and 5 percent this year./.
