MANILA — The Philippines posted a trade deficit PHTBAL=ECI of $4.69 billion for November, preliminary official data showed on Wednesday.
Imports PHIMP=ECI in November rose just 0.02% to $10.82 billion from a year earlier, while exports PHEXP=ECI dropped 13.7% to $6.13 billion, the Philippine Statistics Authority said.
— Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores; Editing by Christopher Cushing