Uzbekistan to export 580,000 tons of cotton fiber
Uzbekistan concluded contracts to export 580,000 metric tons of
cotton fiber and textile goods worth over $1 billion, Uzbek
Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade Elyor
Ganiev said.
He made the remarks at the closing of the International Uzbek
Cotton Fair in Tashkent, where the contracts were signed.
The main volumes of cotton fiber will be sold to China, Singapore,
Russia, South Korea, India, Bangladesh and the United Arab
Emirates.
Over 1,000 cotton business representatives from 42 world's
countries attended the fair.
An international cotton fair in Tashkent has been held under the
auspices of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)
since 2005.
Uzbekistan signed export contracts in the amount of about seven
million metric tons of cotton fiber at ten cotton fairs.