{"id":595587,"date":"2026-08-17T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:50:10","slug":"ai-demand-lifts-singapore-key-exports-24-2-in-july-but-misses-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595587\/","title":{"rendered":"AI demand lifts Singapore key exports 24.2% in July, but misses forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] The Republic\u2019s key exports expanded 24.2 per cent in July, extending the 20.8 per cent rise in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This came on the back of robust artificial intelligence-related demand, Enterprise Singapore data showed on Monday (Aug 17).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">However, July\u2019s expansion fell short of the 26.8 per cent forecast by private-sector economists in a Bloomberg poll.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Electronic exports surged in July, while non-electronics dipped marginally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Electronics exports expanded 112 per cent in July, from 105.1 per cent in the month before. Disk media products (339.1 per cent), integrated circuits (84.5 per cent) and PCs (120.8 per cent) contributed the most to the expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Meanwhile, non-electronics shipments decreased by 2.3 per cent, from June\u2019s 2.8 per cent decline. July\u2019s drop was driven by pharmaceuticals (-56.7 per cent), petrochemicals (-22.5 per cent), and food preparations (-17.9 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Overall, total merchandise trade grew 38.6 per cent year on year in July, after the 49.3 per cent expansion in June. Both exports and imports rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">In July, key exports to all but one of Singapore\u2019s top 10 markets rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) to the EU 27 fell 35.5 per cent, reversing the 20.8 per cent growth in the month before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">In contrast, NODX to all other markets posted growth in July. This was led by the US (62.8 per cent),  followed by South Korea (53.3 per cent), and China (37.6 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia posted growth of 36.4 per cent, 32.4 per cent and 23.4 per cent, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This was followed by Thailand (18 per cent), India (13 per cent) and Indonesia (12.4 per cent).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[SINGAPORE] The Republic\u2019s key exports expanded 24.2 per cent in July, extending the 20.8 per cent rise in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,9458,228822,252174],"class_list":["post-595587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-singapore","tag-singapore-economy","tag-singapore-nodx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}