Foreign Trade Turnover Decreased 23%

In January of this year, Azerbaijan's foreign trade amounted to $ 1 billion 852 million, which is 23% less than in the same month last year.

While in January 2014, foreign trade surplus amounted to $ 1 billion 335,600,000, last month it decreased to $ 703.6 million.

According to the State Customs Committee, last month, the export of oil, natural gas and oil derivatives decreased compared to January 2014 in terms of money by $ 597.7 million to $ 1 billion 152,100,000. The share of hydrocarbons in the structure of exports amounted to 90 1%. The volume of non-oil exports, also considering electricity, increased by $ 4.7 million and was $ 125.7 million in January. Overall, 92.6% of exports accounted for the public sector.

In January goods worth $ 574.2 million were imported. This is 7.1% more than in January 2014. The share of food ($ 72.4 million) accounted for 12.9%, machinery, tools and equipment ($ 165 million) - 28.7%, vehicles ($ 53,100,000) - 9.2%, and ferrous metals ($ 83.5 million) - 14.5% of imports. ---08D