Exports rose about three percent on-year in the first ten days of December.

According to preliminary data from the Korea Customs Service on Monday, the country’s outbound shipments marked 15-point-79 billion U.S. dollars in the cited period, up three-point-three percent on-year.

Average daily exports increased 18 percent, with the number of working days decreasing by one to seven.

Exports of ships and automobiles rose 141-point-three percent and 13-point-two percent, respectively, while semiconductors slipped four percent on-year during the ten-day period.

Imports dropped 15-point-three percent on-year to around 17-point-two billion dollars during the period, resulting in a trade deficit of one-point-46 billion dollars, smaller than the one-point-74 billion-dollar shortfall logged a month earlier.