LONDON - Britain's trade-in-goods deficit widened to 7.0 billion pounds ($16.5 billion) in April from a revised 6.5 billion pounds in March, official data showed on Wednesday.

The March deficit was originally put at 6.6 billion pounds by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Market expectations had been for an April deficit of 6.4 billion pounds, according to economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires.