Tasmanian export sales were softening before the coronavirus pandemic really started to chew into the world economy.
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The state sent $3.579 billion worth of merchandise exports overseas in the year to February at a monthly average of $298 million in original terms, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated.
That was about $18 million per month less than in the previous year, when exports totalled nearly $3.8 billion.
Export values in only three of the 12 months to February were stronger than in the corresponding months a year before.
Only two of the most recent six months beat the annual monthly average, suggesting sales were on a downward trend.
Demand for Tasmanian goods in China - where the pandemic first hit - remained relatively strong in the more recent months, including sales of $120 million in February.
Other stronger markets for Tasmanian goods in February included Indonesia ($15 million), Japan ($19 million), South Korea ($18 million), Malaysia ($17 million) and the US ($15 million).
APEC countries accounted for $264 million of the $287 million worth of Tasmanian good sent overseas in February, underlining the importance of the Asia-Pacific to the state economy..