Global trade volume over the first decline

Global trade volume over the first decline in six years.

Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) on April 22, said that since the fourth quarter of last year, growth in global trade has been a trend of slowing down, and ended in February this year, the 12-month global trade in August 2002 appeared the first time since decline. CPB said that in February ended 12 months before the global trade compared with the 12-month low of 1.5%, and in January ended the 12-month trade than only 12 months before the 0.6 percent growth. And in August 2007 ended 12 months of global trade growth rate was as high as 9.4%. The data also show that the global trade volume in February this year over the same period fell 15 percent, slightly lower than the January 17% of the decline.