WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- US trade deficit widened to $50 billion in March, up 1.5 percent month-on-month, data released Thursday by the US Department of Commerce showed.

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The 0.7-billion-dollar increase came with a year-over-year drop in the goods and services deficit of $5.8 billion, or 3.7 percent, from March 2018.

The February deficit figure was revised down by $0.1 billion to $49.3 billion.

Exports rose to $212 billion, a 2.1-billion-dollar increase from February, while imports reached $262 billion, up $2.8 billion from the previous month, the data showed.