Tatyana Gracheva

The National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) says that Georgia’s foreign trade turnover, excluding unorganised trade, rose 9.1% year-on-year to $18.5 billion in January–September 2025.
As Georgian media report, imports into the country increased by 9.7% and reached $13.4 billion, and exports grew by 7.7% to $5.2 billion.
Georgia’s trade deficit attained $8.2 billion (up by 11%).
Copper ores and concentrates, ferroalloys, natural grape wines, spirits, mineral water, passenger cars, nitrogen fertilisers, pharmaceuticals, gold, timber, and various nuts were exported by Georgia.
Exports of precious metal ores and concentrates rose by 62.7%, sugar-containing mineral or carbonated waters – by 21.5%, passenger cars – by 13.7%, unprocessed or semi-processed gold – by13.4%, nitrogen fertilisers by 11.9%, and pharmaceuticals – by 7%. Nevertheless, exports of ferroalloys decreased by 32.7%, natural grape wines – by 11.5%, and spirits – by 4.7%.
Crude oil and petroleum products, passenger vehicles, petroleum gas and gaseous hydrocarbons, unprocessed carbon steel rods, medicines, mobile phones, trucks, computers and related components, vaccines, and blood and immunological sera were included in key imports.
Imports of works of art (paintings, drawings, and pastels) grew by 164,079.5%, medicines in packaging by10.3%, passenger cars by 9.9%, and petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons by7%.
Opposingly, downfall of imports of computers and related components attained 50.8%, unprocessed carbon steel rods – 28.8%, trucks – 24.4%, tobacco products – 5.5%, and crude oil and petroleum products – 1%.
Bilateral trade reaching $2.3 billion (12.2% of Georgia’s total foreign trade) made Türkiye Georgia’s top trading partner in January- September 2025. Azerbaijan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and the United Kingdom were other major partners.
NH Logistics GEO has been offering IOR Importer of Record and EOR Exporter of Record services since 2001 and is a market leader in Georgia and Eurasia, supporting many clients with their import/export shipments.

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According to finance minister Sinisa Mali, U.S. have proposed Serbia to outline the framework of a trade agreement between the two countries, and Serbia is ready to continue further negotiations.
She recalled free trade agreements between Serbia and China, Egypt, the UAE signed last year and current negotiations with South Korea.
From his side, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a 10% baseline tariff on all exporters to the country. Duties on some 60 nations identified as having high barriers on imports from the U.S. are even higher. For example, tariff on imports from Serbia attained 37% in April 2024, but later it was reduced to 35%.
Data from Serbia’s statistics office report that Serbia exported to the U.S. goods worth 619.5 million euro ($725 million), and imported goods worth 683.7 million euro in 2024.
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. exported $209.8 million worth of goods to Serbia and imported $814.2 million in 2024.
As data from Serbia’s chamber of commerce showed, tyres (123.7 million euro), uncategorised goods – including military equipment (109.6 million euro), motor parts (37.2 million euro), pet food (27.4 million euro), and ammunition (25 million euro), were products that Serbia exported the most to the U.S.in 2024.
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Many ships come to the Poti Sea Port, on the Black Sea coast of Georgia, and will go to Turkey or Romania to reach the EU.

Since 2022, the need to streamline trade through the “Middle Corridor” has become evident.

Meanwhile, as Atlantic Council reports, volumes on the Northern Corridor fell by half in 2023, while volumes on the Middle Corridor increased by 89 per cent.

Another reason to develop the Middle Corridor is a recurrent disruption to maritime traffic through the Red Sea as a result of attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen.

Another major infrastructure development is the new Tbilisi Dry Port opened in June. AD Ports Group, based in Abu Dhabi, owns it.

According to Levan Berdzenishvili, commercial manager at Tbilisi Dry Port, this hub allows to load cargo to and from trains at Tbilisi.

Finally, additional rail spurs and warehousing facilities will be connected next year.

Not only cargo, but also oil and gas run via the Middle Corridor through Georgia, from Azerbaijan to export terminals in Turkey.

Also, Georgia has become an important link in the Green Energy Corridor, an underwater transmission line linking Georgia to Romania.

Nevertheless, the main challenge is the complexity of the Middle Corridor’s route. It needs to load cargoes heading from China along the corridor to ships to cross the Caspian Sea, then to load them back on to trains or trucks in Baku to cross the Caucasus, and then to transfer to ships again at the Black Sea coast.

Demand for the Middle Corridor could be undermined by factors beyond Georgia’s control, including rail and port delays in Central Asia, or a lack of shipping capacity on the Caspian.

However, the role of Georgia is to ensure the functioning of the Middle Corridor.

Another important thing is a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, including a pledge to develop trade and infrastructure along the so-called ‘Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’.

Yet, delays in approving an expansion plan that would see it invest at least $200mn in a new quay are frustrating for APM.

The reason is the priority of a new deepwater port further north at Anaklia.

Alkis Drakinos, regional director for Caucasus at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, says that private sector partners have expressed underwhelming levels of demand to the EBRD. Nevertheless, financing bankable Middle Corridor projects will be considered.

Also, Drakinos warns that the government is not doing enough to encourage investment in Middle Corridor infrastructure.

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According to Serbian state-owned postal operator Posta Srbije, a regional logistics centre in the central city of Kraljevo restarted its work following a reconstruction.
As the postal operator said in a press release on Monday, Posta Srbije’s Kraljevo logistics centre is its fifth one in the country to introduce a robotic system for automatic sorting of postal items. The other four are in Nis, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, and Belgrade.
There are 42 robots, with a capacity of 2,500 postal items per hour, in the new system. Processing and delivery times have also become shorter.
According to Zoran Andjelkovic, Posta Srbije acting director, the strategic goal was to equip all large logistics centres with robots and make new technologies and artificial intelligence an integral part of business processes. Putting this centre into operation completes the robotisation process in all large centres.
As Andjelkovic also said, Posta Srbije will complete a tender for eDeliveries by the end of the year. It will facilitate its staff.
The Kraljevo logistics centre processed more than 900,000 postal items in January-September 2025. This result made it Posta Srbije’s fourth largest logistics centre, after Belgrade, Nis, and Novi Sad.
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