THE country’s trade deficit shrank year-on-year in September as both exports and imports fell, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Wednesday.

Data from the statistics agency showed that the September deficit hit $3.12 billion, compared with $4.02 billion a year earlier and $2.6 billion in August this year.

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