(BUDAPEST) - Hungary posted a trade surplus of 64.1 million euros (100.7 million dollars) for the month of April, the central statistics bureau KSH said on Friday.

In April 2007, it had run a deficit of 155.4 million euros.

The foreign trade surplus in the first four months of 2008 was 340.5 million euros, compared to 307.2 million euros in the same period last year.

Hungary's exports expanded in the first four months of this year by 17 percent on a 12-month basis while imports grew by 12 percent, the office said in a statement.

In 2007, the country substantially narrowed its trade deficit to 307.6 million euros from 1.96 billion euros in 2006 and 2.9 billion euros in 2005.

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