The share of the country’s current account to gross domestic product (GDP) could drop this year, Fitch Ratings said, on the back of a wider trade deficit.

In a full ratings report for the Philippines, Fitch said it expected an expanded trade deficit to trim the 2015 current account surplus to 3.5 percent of GDP from 3.8 percent in 2014.

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