Foreign trade in August finished with 10.6-billion-crown surplus

Foreign trade in the Czech Republic for the month of August finished with a 10.6-billion-crown surplus, the Czech Statistical Office has reported. Improvement of 9.1 billion over August of last year marked the third month of year-on-year growth for foreign trade, and is put down primarily to a decreased deficit in mineral fuels trading and a higher surplus in machinery and vehicles trading.