Qatar trade surplus shrinks

DOHA, May 3, (RTRS): Qatar’s foreign trade surplus shrank 53.7 percent from a year earlier to 16.47 billion riyals ($4.52 billion) in March because of low oil and natural gas prices, preliminary data from the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics showed on Sunday.

Exports of petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons fell 43.5 percent in

March to 17.43 billion riyals.