Although the financial condition of the business sector is generally quite strong, several areas of structural weakness are evident, notably in the automobile and airline industries. Despite these  2  BIS Review 13/2006  problems, however, favorable conditions in the business sector as a whole should encourage continued expansion of capital investment.
But data for the second half of 2016 to the present show increased trade momentum! Goods exports expanded by 12.2 percent during the first nine months of 2017, owing to improved external demand from major trading partners such as the United States, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, South Korea and the European Union. There is an 8.6 percent increase in outbound shipments of manufactured goods.