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Exports of goods reached 2290.4 million US dollars in the first six months of the year (1.7 times increase compared to in the same period last year).
The National Bureau of Statistics reports that exports of domestic goods reached 1,705.5 million US dollars (74.5% of total exports), (1.7 times up compared to the same period of 2021). This fact contributed to the increase of the total value of exports by 54.3%.
Romania (29.0%), Ukraine (10.8%), Turkey (9.2%) and Italy (8.5%) imported most of goods. The merchandise is exported the most frequently by road transport (73.1%), followed by maritime transport (16.6%), rail transport (9.6%) and air transport (0.7% ).
During the reported period, merchandise imports totally attained 4347.0 million US dollars (33.1% more than the same period last year). Most of goods were imported from Romania (16.2%), the Russian Federation (15.3%), China (9.4%) and Ukraine (9.1%).

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An increase was noted in the value of foreign trade in agricultural products from the Republic of Moldova to the People’s Republic of China. The conclusion was reached by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vladimir Bolea and Ambassador of China to Chisinau Yan Wenbin at yesterday’s meeting.
Strengthening of economic relations between the states, promoting the export of agricultural products to the Chinese market and analyzing administrative and logistical impediments for the delivery of batches of fresh fruits and vegetables were the main topics of the discussion.
According to Yan Wenbin, Chinese markets are kept open for Moldovan agricultural products. Special interest is marked in cherries, sour cherries, grape seeds, nuts, oil, sawdust, apples, wine, cereals etc. Domestic producers should show more initiative to obtain the importer’s license, which is a key moment for accelerating exports. The contribution to the dissemination of Chinese experience regarding technological innovations in the irrigation and soil processing sector will also be made.
In response, Vladimir Bolea underlined the crucial importance of the Chinese market for further exploitation, taking into account Moldovan wine products promotion through the National Vine and Wine Office. According to him, Moldova is grateful to China for the support of the country’s approach to boost exports of agri-food products on this market.
Statistics show that 3.6% of the total Moldovan alcoholic production in 2021 was imported by the People’s Republic of China (about 9.3 billion US dollars). The export of strong alcoholic beverages increased in 2021 by about 60% compared to 2020 (by about 32% in value).

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The trade exchange between the two countries shows constant growth.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, import of beef, milk and dairy products from Serbia has been approved by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority.
They informed Serbian Minister of Agriculture Branislav Nedimovic that this country had been placed on the list of approved food exporters to Saudi Arabia, according to the latest decision of the Saudi Food and Drug Administration, at a recent meeting with representatives of this authority.
So, Serbia will export milk and dairy products to Saudi Arabia after more than 40 years. Serbian fruit and vegetables are already exported to Saudi Arabia without restrictions.
Serbian producers consider the access of their food products to this lucrative market to be an excellent opportunity, especially profitable due to record levels reached by food prices.

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The Statistical Committee registered an increase by 11,2% attained by cargo shipments in January-June 2022 compared to the previous year’s same period.
1% growth was shown by rail shipments, 12,9% – by automobile shipments, 5,3% – by air shipments (cargo shipments carried out by airlines of other countries included), 18,4% – by “trunk pipeline” shipments.
All types of vehicles totally shipped 8 million 332,6 thousand tons of cargo.
As for passenger transport, an increase by 40,4% (71,million 030.5 thousand people transported) was attained by passenger transportation by general-use transport vehicles.
An increase by 22,5% was attained by railway passenger transportation, 43,9% – by automobile transport, 75,6% – by air transport (aircraft of other countries included), and 25,4% – by electric transport .
It is important to remember that only the volume of taxi services by legal entities, which fell down by 23,4% compared to the previous year, is shown by the automobile transport passenger indicator.
This increase of cargo and passenger transportation testifies that the sectors are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic effects.

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According to the June export review of the Center for Economic Reforms Analysis and Communication of Azerbaijan, the country boosted its non-oil exports by $295.4 million or 25.4 percent, in January-June of 2022.
In January- June 2022, Azerbaijan’s total exports reached $18.5 billion, including $1.5 billion in the non-oil sector. The increase of fruit and vegetable production achieved 7.1 percent ($328.1 million) compared to the corresponding period of 2021.
The first place was taken by the cotton yarn ($136.9 million in non-oil exports), the second place belonged to tomatoes ($126.9 million) and the third one was occupied by carbamide ($98.7 million).
Among non-oil product exports, Turkey was the first ($428.4 million), Russia was the second ($382 million) and Georgia was the third ($88.2 million).
Exports reached $3.1 billion in June 2022, during the normalization process. Non-oil exports boosted by 5.8 percent and achieved $269.6 million. Food exports grew up by 6.6 percent and attained $119.6 million, while non-food exports showed growth by 5.1 percent ($149.9 million).
Among non-oil product exports in June, Russia took the first place ($118.6 million), Turkey was the second ($38.2 million) and India was the third ($18.2 million). The first item on the list was tomatoes ($35.8 million), then cherries ($34.2 million) and potatoes ($20.2 million).
Data on export orders received by the azexport.az portal was also included in the export review. Consequently, orders totaling $248.4 million were received by the portal from January to June 2022. The azexport.az received orders of total value of $33.4 million in June 2022. For comparison, $3.08 billion in export orders from 145 countries was received by the portal between January 2017 and June 30, 2021.
Total value of non-oil exports through the Single Window Export Support Centre in July of this year was $17.4 million.
The export review is aimed at familiarizing entrepreneurs with export issues, expanding opportunities for exporting local goods to traditional and new markets and accelerating the process of integration into international markets.

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According to Ambassador of Armenia to Iran, efforts are made to increase Iran-Armenia annual trade volume to one billion US dollars, due to the need to increase the volume of trade between these two countries.
As Ambassador Arsen Avagyan said in his Friday evening meeting with the governor-general of East Azarbaijan Province, Iran’s neighboring provinces with Armenia have great importance for his country. Establishment of a consular office in Tabriz has also been requested.
Avagyan said that the Armenian side is ready to have face to face meetings with foreign merchants and businessmen, and West Azarbaijan province merchants and officials are invited to visit Armenia’s Syunik Province.
Araks border river has also been mentioned by Ambassador Avagyan due to its significant importance for both Iran and Armenia. The question of environment protection arose, and one of the mines has been shut down till required moves will be made to eliminate the environmental hazards.
According to the Ambassador, buying the manufactured goods in East Azarbaijan Province is among Armenia’s priorities, as it is the closest transit route for Armenia.
That province is quite ready for boosting trade with neighboring countries, including Armenia, as the governor of East Azarbaijan Province said, and he emphasized that increasing interactions with neighboring countries is one of the basic policies of the 13th Government, and the provinces have the required authorities for the purpose.
According to Abedin Khorram, increased trade and business between the two provinces of East Azarbaijan and Syunik is quite favorable for Iran.
The supreme scientific status of East Azarbaijan Province in Iran has also been referred to, and province’s readiness for establishment of a joint science and technology park, which can be turned into a regional export hub, has been announced.
Khorram underlined the great importance of Araks River for Iran, and therefore major steps to control the entry of mining sewage water into it are expected from Armenia.

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The recent appreciation of the dram and the dollar depreciation (the contracts for export are mostly signed in dollars) has become a problem for companies exporting from Armenia. The price of raw material has also increased because of inflation. Logistic problems have also appeared.
The USA is the main export destination of Armavir Fruit processing agricultural goods (canned fruits and vegetables, dried fruits). According to the company founder Hayk Manukyan, the fluctuation of the foreign currency and the appreciation of the dram is their main problem at this moment. Luckily, state assistance programs helped people to build orchards, greenhouse farms and to increase the volumes.
He says that any problem is automatically transferred to rural people, who are not able to process that volume under dram appreciation. The price changes very little over the years. If it increases, a market will be lost.
Dollar decreasing by around 20% makes exporting some goods unprofitable for the company now. Exports continue in spite of financial loss in order to save the market.
According to logistic company Spinnaker Group co-founder Norayr Gevorgyan, the fluctuation of the foreign currency is a problem for all exporters. The worst thing is that the dram appreciation happened immediately.
The calculation of the prices in the field of cargo transportation in dollars makes price increase as most of the expenditures in Armenia is in drams.
The opinion of the Central Bank, expressed by CBA Governor Martin Galstyan, is that serious problems will be caused by the artificial depreciation of the dram, for example, a new inflationary wave that will impact all citizens of Armenia, including exporters.
The Upper Lars border checkpoint regular shutting down because of bad weather and major queues there are also a problem for exporters. Armenian cargo trucks suffer most of all.
Russia also imports Armavir Fruit goods, but not much. According to Hayk Manukyan, major agreements with the partners of the Russian market will be signed soon. It makes the problem of Lars checkpoint very relevant, taking into account imports made for reprocessing.
Contracts make Lars very important for each exporter. If it is not solved, reserves in Russia are necessary in order to fulfill the contract.
According to Spinnaker Group co-founder Norayr Gevorgyan, there have always been problems with Lars checkpoint in every season, but this year the major flow of vehicles from other countries which cannot travel to Russia via Europe supplemented this difficulty. Lars served as an alternative route for them, but it couldn’t serve so many cars.
The exports of apricots stopped this year, because queues made it impossible to pass Georgia quickly.
They expect to launch a ferry communication to mitigate the problem of Lars. They are delaying the launch previewed for June 15th because the permission has not been granted by the Dutch company, the Poti port operator, yet, and it has also imposed sanctions against Russia. This measure will not solve the problem completely, as a ferry can’t transport all the goods exported from Armenia.
Inflation affects many countries. According to Hayk Manukyan, the decline of foreign currency doesn’t make the prices fall. The economy could be negatively affected by the dram depreciation from inflation perspective. He proposes to support exporting companies.

According to Spinnaker Group founder Norayr Gevorgyan, the fluctuation of a foreign currency is a global problem and does not depend on Armenia only. It makes exporters suffer, and it is necessary to provide a respective approach to them.
Without compensation, the situation will become very difficult for suffering sectors. They should provide a sectoral assistance to exporting companies, having contracts in dollar.

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According to the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and Integration press service, Kazakhstan – Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) trade turnover reached $10 billion in January – May this year (4.8 percent up compared to the same period of the previous year ($9.5 billion).
The decrease of exports from Kazakhstan to the EAEU countries attained 0.9 percent ($2.9 billion) in January – May. Iron ore concentrates, hot rolled steel and cold rolled steel and ferrous metals were included. Simultaneously, the supply of aluminum oxides and hydroxides, unprocessed zinc, ferroalloys, and rolling stock components has increased.
At the same time, an increase of imports from the EAEU countries to Kazakhstan by 7.3 percent ($7 billion) has been observed in the first five months of this year. The majority of the imported goods were made up by copper ores and concentrates, sunflower seeds, wheat, zinc concentrates, semi-finished products of non-alloy steel, mineral and carbonated water and nitrogen fertilizers.
Kazakhstan’s non-primary goods trade turnover with EAEU countries attained $8.1 billion (6.2 percent up compared to the same period in 2021 ($7.7 billion).
An increase by 13.6 percent ($2 billion) was shown by exports of non-primary goods from Kazakhstan to the EAEU countries, while the growth of imports of processed goods to Kazakhstan from the EAEU countries reached 4.1 percent ($6.2 billion).

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According to the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and Integration press service, the trade turnover of non-primary goods of Kazakhstan in January – May 2022 attained $25.3 billion (20.4 percent up compared to the same period of the previous year ($21.0 billion).
QazTrade, center for trade policy development under the Ministry of Trade and Integration, reported that the increase of non-primary goods export from Kazakhstan reached 34.7 percent in five months ($9.7 billion).
The export growth has been contributed to by a significant increase in the supply of non-raw materials such as ferroalloys, uranium, copper, sulfur, and unprocessed zinc.
The supplies of wheat or wheat-rye flour drastically increased by 86 percent, as well as oxides and hydroxides aluminum – by 89.2 percent.
At the same time, the average boost of the import attained 12.9 percent ($15.5 billion). An increase in the import of such non-primary goods as automobile bodies, medicines packaged for retail sale, ferrous metal products, parts, accessories for cars and tractors, engines internal combustion with spark ignition, telephones, and air conditioning units drives its growth.
The ministry reports that Kazakhstan’s main trading partners in non-primary goods are Russia (export – 17.9 percent, import – 37.2 percent), China (export – 19.9 percent, import – 23.5 percent) and Turkey (export – 7.5 percent, import – 2.9 percent).

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According to Yan Wenbin, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Moldova, a quick development of commercial partnership between China and Moldova took place. The volume of trade between the two countries increased from only 70,000 dollars in the beginning of the establishment of the diplomatic relations, 30 years ago, to 849 million dollars in 2021. As a result, China became the fourth big commercial partner of Moldova.
The ambassador said that more and more Chinese consumers appreciate the Moldovan wine, so China is now one of the principal export markets for it. The export of Moldovan wine to China is actively promoted by China’ Embassy, along with Chinese and Moldovan partners. A live broadcasting on the promotion and sale of Moldovan wines took place on the Douyin platform not so long ago, at an initiative by the Embassy of China in Moldova, and it had favorable results.
The head of the Chinese diplomatic mission says that China is willing to import also other highly qualitative farming products from Moldova, being the biggest consumption market of the world. The entrance on the Chinese market of the edible vegetable oil and peeled walnuts from Moldova has been approved. The ambassador is quite aware of the fact that the Moldovan farming products have temporarily lost some traditional export markets, because of the conflict in the region. The access of more and more Moldovan agricultural products to the Chinese market is being actively stimulated be The Embassy of China.
According to Yan Wenbin, China has always provided, as far as it was possible, support for the social and economic development of Moldova as a good friend and partner. The photovoltaic power station from Criuleni, constructed with the support of the Chinese government and put into operation in the beginning of this year, represents the most recent example. A special importance of this project is especially significant in the context of the energy crisis in Moldova. Besides, the project of Chinese Medicine Centre, the third phase, carried out with the support of China, which will be soon implemented, has been officially approved by the Moldovan government.

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