April's encouraging 0.7% m/m advance in export volumes, following the previous month's much stronger gain, indicates that exports are holding up and that external trade may continue to buffer GDP growth in the second quarter. This suggests that there is some upside risk to our 1.0% annualised growth forecast.
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