{"id":55505,"date":"2025-09-05T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-trade-deficit-narrows-in-july\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:46:33","slug":"rwanda-s-trade-deficit-narrows-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-trade-deficit-narrows-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s trade deficit narrows in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Rwanda\u2019s exports declined by 2.95% in July 2025 compared to June, and by 55.11% year-on-year. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) remained the leading export destination, accounting for $38.65 million or 35.3% of total exports. <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ranked second with imports worth $34.68 million (31.67%), followed by China, which imported goods valued at $1.36 million (11.29%).<\/p>\n<p>Imports into Rwanda also fell, dropping by 10.75% in July 2025 compared to June, and by 32.2% year-on-year. China was the country\u2019s largest source of imports, supplying goods worth $95.94 million (23.23%). <\/p>\n<p>Tanzania followed with $46.9 million (11.36%), while Kenya supplied $35.94 million (8.7%).<\/p>\n<p>The UAE accounted for $35.73 million or 8.65% of Rwanda\u2019s imports in July, while imports from India were valued at $25.29 million, representing 6.12% of the total.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93879\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/h-30.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s trade deficit decreased by 17.11% in July 2025 compared to July 2024, according to the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s trade deficit decreased by 17.11% in July 2025 compared to July 2024, according to the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). The deficit also contracted by 16.01% compared to the previous month, June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093878,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/h-10.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55505"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55505"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}