As export slows and energy prices rise
Will not return to earlier levels, ÉVOSZ chairman says
In July - several factors at play at once
Preliminary data for May published
Foreign trade booms
Due to huge drop in imports
2020 foreign trade surplus up 32% yr/yr
Opel Astra tops popularity chart
Import show increase both m/m and yr/yr
Exports up 4.6%, imports down 2.4% yr/yr
In August, as coronavirus upsets downtime schedule
Imports and exports are still lower than a year earlier
EU-Vietnam trade agreement enters into force
Recovery from coronavirus crisis has begun.
Export and import both plummet
As exports fall 37% and imports 28%
Worse figures since 2008-2009 crisis