Total external trade up
The total external trade in goods in SOCCSKSARGEN Region amounted to USD 160.557 million in April 2021, an increase of 24.4 percent from USD 129.104 million in April 2020.

Trade balance decrease
Balance of trade in goods (BoT-G) is the difference between the value of exports and imports. In April 2021, the BoT-G amounted to US$ 23.655 million, about 6.1 percent lower than the US$ 25.180 million last year.

Merchandise Trade
Exports from the SOCCSKSARGEN Region increased by 19.4% from US$77.142 million in April 2020 to US$92.106 million in April 2021. The total amount of export items went up from 59.467 million kilograms in 2020 to 74.578 million kilograms in the same month of 2021. Import cost rose by 31.7 percent in April 2021 from US$51.962 million in 2020 to US$68.451 million. In April 2021, imports reached 147.909 million kilograms, up from 106.506 million kilograms of the same month the previous year (Table 1).