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Foreign Trade
Expectation Survey
of 1st Quarter, 2018
Foreign Trade Expectation Survey
(DTBA) reflects assessments of
Turkish foreign trade depending
on recent and current situations
along with future expectations
of leading firms. Particularly, it
helps to produce indices which
can be stated as leading indicators.
Export Expectation Index decreased
by 11.2 points to 112.5
in the 1st quarter of 2018 from
123.7 in the 4th quarter of
2017. Diffusion indices of Survey
questions composing the Export
Expectation Index show that,
in the 1st quarter of 2018, in
comparison to the 4th quarter
of 2017, expectations regarding
the level of export for the next
3 months, the level of current
export orders, export orders
belonging to the last 3 months
and expectations for the export
orders of the next 3 months have
decreasing effect over the Index.
Import Expectation Index increased
by 2.1 points to 115.0
in the 1st quarter of 2018
from 112.8 in the 4th quarter
of 2017. In the 1st quarter of
2017, in comparison to the 4th
quarter of 2017, among the
survey questions identifying the
Import Expectation Index, current
level of import orders and the
expectations regarding the level
of import for the next 3 months
have decreasing effects over
Index, while unit import price
for the next 3 months and level
of import orders of the last 3
months has increasing effects
over Index.
Source: Ministry of Economy