KIEV, Oct. 13 - The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods increased by 81.4% year-over-year in January-August, to $8.105 billion, the State Statistics Service said on Wednesday.

Exports of goods grew by 39.4%, to $43.977 billion, and imports went up by 44.6%, to $52.082 billion.

The ratio of the coverage of imports by export was 0.84, compared with 0.88 in January-August 2010.

Taking into account earlier published data over the seven months, in August the deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods came to $1.439 billion.