Country’s trade deficit increases by 19.7

Kathmandu, June 19: The trade deficit in the fiscal year has increased by 19.7 percent to 1.996 trillion rupees.

The trade deficit rose up as the import of gross goods import was much higher than export, according to Nepal Rastra Bank..

The export of net goods products in ten months of the current fiscal year went up by 18.1 to limiting it at 78.53 billion rupees while gross import increased by 19.6 percent to 1trillion 168.14 billion rupees