Azerbaijan, Ukraine trade turnover hits $519m in 1H2020
By Ayya Lmahamad
Ukraine is Azerbaijan's second largest trade partner in the
post-Soviet space after Russia.
The countries continued bilateral trade in the 2020 despite the COVID-19 crisis.
The volume of import and export operations between Azerbaijan
and Ukraine in January-July 2020 amounted to $519 million, local
media reported with reference to the State Statistics Committee of
Ukraine on August 19.
According to the report, Azerbaijan exported goods to Ukraine worth
$213 million during the first seven months of the year.
Moreover, during the reporting period, the cost of goods imported
by Azerbaijan from Ukraine amounted to $246 million.
It should be noted that last year trade turnover between Azerbaijan
and Ukraine reached $808 million dollars.
Earlier, it was reported that the volume of Azerbaijan’s trade
operations amounted to $15.3 billion in the period between January
and July.
Some $5.9 billion of trade operations fell on imports and $9.1
billion on exports.
Among the CIS countries, Russia accounted for the largest volume of
export worth $430.7 million, and Ukraine ranked second.
During the reporting period, legal entities and individual
entrepreneurs carried out trade operations with partners in 167
countries. Goods were exported to 100 countries and imported from
155 countries.
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