Azeri trade up 34 pct in 2010
BAKU – Azerbaijan conducted trade transactions with 147 countries to the tune of $27.9 billion in 2010, 34.1 pct over 2009, the State Statistics Committee said.
Exports accounted for $21.3bn, or 76.4 percent of the trade turnover, while imports made up the remaining $6.6bn.
Exported goods exceeded the volume of imported ones more than three-fold, resulting in a positive trade balance of $14.7bn.
Exports rose 45.1 pct and imports 7.8 pct compared to 2009, the statistics committee reported.
Three-fourths of the trade transactions were carried out with Italy, France, Russia, Israel, the United States, Ukraine, Turkey, China, Croatia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Germany.
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