World Demand for Products from Azerbaijan Grows

Baku / 06.10.17 / Turan: During seven months of 2017, Azexport.az portal received proposals for the purchase of Azerbaijani products from 53 countries, for $ 264.3 million, the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan reports.

In July, the monetary value of requests received on this portal exceeded the June one by 15%. By months, the total amount of all requests is as follows: in January 2017 - $ 48 million, in February - $ 6.5 million, in March - $ 27 million, in April - $ 29.9 million, in May - $ 19 million, in June - $ 62.3 million and in July - $ 71.6 million.

The analysis shows that in July, the largest, in terms of money, orders came from the Russian Federation. This country is also the leader in orders for the whole period of seven months of 2017. According to the State Customs Committee, during this period, goods to Russia from Azerbaijan were exported for $ 311 million, which is 36.4% of the country's non-oil export for 7 months.

In the first five of the customers who applied to the portal Azexport.az with the desire to buy Azerbaijani goods, Russia leads (19%), followed by Ukraine (7.8%), then Turkey (7.4%), the United States (4.8%) and Saudi Arabia (4.8% ).

In June of this year, the portal received orders from Qatar, Tanzania and Ecuador for the first time.

Of the group of non-oil products, orders for Azerbaijani food products are mainly for chilled hazelnuts, wine, cosmetics, tobacco, mushrooms, baby clothes, canned beef, milk powder, furniture, chicken eggs, frozen chicken meat, cherry juice, silk carpets, yarn, butter, apples, automobile diagnostic devices, engine oil, etc.

The amount of orders for yarn, cotton fiber, apples, chilled hazelnuts, and chicken for each product exceeds $ 1 million.

In Great Britain and Germany demand for Azerbaijani carpets is high. Orders for this product come to the portal from many countries, from Kazakhstan to Tanzania.

The volume of orders will grow, as the portal Azexport began to display Azerbaijani goods on the leading electronic trading floors of the world. Thanks to the efforts of the portal's employees, Azerbaijani entrepreneurs will be able to post their offers in Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA). This service is ready to help Azerbaijani businessmen in placing, packaging, delivery and storage of export goods in more than 100 barns in the USA.

The Azexport portal is also integrated in such large trade portals as Alibaba and Allbiz. -0-