VIENNA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Austria has seen a 10.3 percent increase in exports for the first quarter of the year, the largest increase in the past five years, the Austrian Economic Chambers revealed.
In a press release to mark the opening of its "export day" event on Monday, the chambers President Christoph Leitl said the "difficult export year 2016" has now passed, and exports are once again on an upward trend".
He said the first-quarter export growth also brought with it short-term tax revenues of about 350 million euros (390 million U.S. dollars).
Export growth was observed to most major regions of the world, including Europe (up 10.2 percent), Africa (11.2 percent), the Americas (11.2 percent), Asia (8.8 percent), and Australia (26.1 percent). Only the Middle East saw a decline of 3.9 percent due to the present crises there. Enditem
