UPDATE: April Trade Balance -$47.2B vs -$40.8B Expected

April Trade Balance -$47.2B vs -$40.8B Expected

UPDATE - More from the BEA release:

Goods and Services

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total April exports of $193.3 billion and imports of $240.6 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $47.2 billion, up from $44.2 billion in March, revised. April exports were $0.3 billion less than March exports of $193.7 billion. April imports were $2.7 billion more than March imports of $237.8 billion.

In April, the goods deficit increased $3.3 billion from March to $65.8 billion, and the services surplus increased $0.2 billion from March to $18.6 billion. Exports of goods decreased $0.6 billion to $135.1 billion, and imports of goods increased $2.7 billion to $200.9 billion. Exports of services increased $0.3 billion to $58.2 billion, and imports of services increased $0.1 billion to $39.7
billion.

The goods and services deficit increased $6.8 billion from April 2013 to April 2014. Exports were up $5.6 billion, or 3.0 percent, and imports were up $12.4 billion, or 5.4 percent.

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