Exports fell for a 10th consecutive month in July as demand from all of the nation's major markets deteriorated.

Shipments abroad tumbled 36.5 percent from a year earlier, steeper than the 35.7 percent drop in June, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. The median estimate of 23 economists was for a 38.4 percent decrease.

Manufacturers are still reeling from plunging sales of cars and electronics, even as the economy emerges from its worst postwar recession.