MANILA— The Philippines posted a trade deficit PHTBAL=ECI of $3.65 billion for February, preliminary official data showed on Thursday.
Imports PHIMP=ECI in February rose 6.3% to $9.55 billion from a year earlier, while exports PHEXP=ECI increased 15.7% to $5.9 billion, the Philippine Statistics Authority said.
— Reporting by Mikhail Flores, Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor