Statistics Iceland has decided to publish, from now on, preliminary figures on total exports and imports in the previous month. The figures will be published in Short term indicators in the beginning of the following month. Final figures for each month will be published like before, approximately three weeks later. Final annual figures will be published with a delay of approximately seven weeks as before.
As can be seen in Short term indicators, the preliminary value of exports of goods in January 2006 are 15,400 million ISK fob while the value of imports is 25,500 million ISK fob. Therefore preliminary figures show a trade deficit in January 2006 of 10,100 million ISK.