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The wholesale trade turnover (except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) over Jan - July 2018 was up 9.3 percent YoY as unadjusted series, and 8.9 pct higher as workday and seasonally adjusted series, mainly due to a significant advance in wholesales of agricultural products and live animals, shows data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Expressed as workday and seasonally adjusted series, the wholesale trade turnover was driven up by the increase in wholesale trade in unprocessed agricultural products and live animals (+24.1 pct), specialized wholesales in other products (+14.2 pct), wholesale trade in other machinery, equipment and supplies (+11.1 pct), non-specialised wholesale trade (+10.7 pct), wholesale trade in consumer goods other than food (+10 pct), wholesale trade intermediation (+8.2 pct), wholesale trade turnover for IT and telecommunication equipment (+5.6 pct), wholesales of food, beverages and tobacco (+3.9 pct).
