The foreign trade deficit on goods, according to the balance of payments presentation, increased to USD 56,320 million in 2010, an increase of 127 per cent over the previous year.
As regards the sub-items, imports in goods (CIF) including gold imports increased by 32 per cent to USD 177,272 million, exports in goods (FOB) increased by 10 per cent to USD 120,952 million and shuttle trade revenues increased by 4 per cent to USD 5 billion.
Meanwhile, non-monetary gold indicated a deficit of USD 453 million in 2010, in contrast to USD 3,007 million surplus recorded in 2009.
Trade in services generated a surplus of USD 14,208 million in 2010 decreasing 17.9 per cent over the previous year's figure of USD 16,749 million.
The financial account recorded a net capital inflow of USD 5,417 million in 2009 corresponding to 85.1 per cent decrease over the previous year.
FDI (net) inflow in 2010 increased by 6 per cent over 2009 and reached USD 8,899 billion.
Official reserves, a sub-item under reserve assets, recorded a decrease of USD 12,799 billion in the twelve-month period of 2010, down from USD 111 million posted in the same period of 2009
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