Q2 domestic trade up 4.5% to P146.24 billion

Despite trade volume within the country decreasing slightly by tonnage, domestic commodity flow still improved in value, showing an increase of 4.5 percent.

According to the second-quarter domestic Commodity Flow data of the National Statistics Office (NSO) for 2013, domestic trade volume went down by 1.3 percent—from 4.87 million tons last year to 4.81 million tons this year. While trade volume registered a decline, the value of traded goods and commodities went up by 4.5 percent—from P139.9 billion in 2012 to P146.2 billion in 2013.