For two months of 2017, Azerbaijan's foreign trade turnover with 137 countries of the world amounted to 2 billion 625.9 million US dollars, which exceeded the indicator for the same period last year by 20%, the State Customs Committee said.
Exports accounted for 63% ($ 1 billion 653.9 million) of the foreign trade operations. They increased by 36.6%. At the same time, the share of the oil and gas sector in exports was 89%.
Since the beginning of the year, goods worth $ 971.9 million were imported, 0.4% less than in January-February 2016.
It is noteworthy that this year the range of exported goods increased from 968 (January-February 2016) to 1,305. The list of imported goods also increased from 4,648 to 5,402. ----08D
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