In July 2025, timely foreign trade data reported a trade deficit of $17 million. This balance compares to a surplus of $514 million in June. The decrease in the trade balance between June and July resulted from a reduction in the surplus of the non-petroleum products balance—which fell from $2.982 billion in June to $2.125 billion in July—and a smaller deficit in the petroleum products balance—which fell from $2.467 billion to $2.141 billion in the same comparison. For the period January-July 2025, the trade balance showed a surplus of $1.416 billion. In the same period in 2024, it recorded a deficit of $12.136 ... (full story)