LatinNews Daily - 30 June 2020

* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show the country’s trade deficit in the first four months of 2020 was US$1.3bn, US$485m less than the US$1.7bn registered in the same period of 2019. Honduran exports in the first four months of 2020 totalled US$1.6bn, up 4.2% year-on-year, due to an increase in sales of coffee, bananas, gold and sugar. The BCH added that imports totalled US$2.8bn in the first four months of 2020, a 12.8% drop compared with the same period in 2019. Imports fell due to a decline in purchases of fuel, consumer goods, industrial equipment and raw materials during the national lockdown implemented to contain the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19). 

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