Quarterly World Merchandise Trade

There was a change of 27.2% in exports in world merchandise trade in the first quarter of 2010 and a change of 24.2% in imports according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) quarterly world merchandise statistics recent release. It compares with 3.8% in imports and -0.9% in exports for Q4 2010 and -31% and -29.9% respectively for Q1 2009.