The FINANCIAL — According to the State Statistics Service, during the first 9 months of 2016 the general turnover of foreign trade of Ukraine with agricultural products (groups 1-24 of UKT VED) totaled 13.5 bln USD, an increase of 2.3% compared with January-September of 2015, declared the Deputy Director on scientific work at the National scientific center “Institute of agrarian economy”, Nikolai Pugachev on October 20.
N.Pugachev specified that the growth of export and import trading with the European Union became the main reason for enlargement of agricultural trading volumes in Ukraine.
During the first 9 months of 2016, the export volumes of Ukrainian agricultural products increased by 0.1 bln USD, and totaled 10.5 bln USD. Three regions remained as the main sales markets – Asian countries, Africa and the EU. In particular, in January-September of 2016 Asian countries purchased Ukrainian food products at 4.8 bln USD (45.7% of the general exports), the EU – 3 bln USD (28.6%), and African countries – 1.5 bln USD (14.3%). The reporting three regions covered nearly 90% of the Ukrainian agricultural exports, according to APK-Inform.
At the same time, the exports of agricultural products to the CIS countries continue reducing: in the reporting period the supply volumes decreased by 300 mln USD, to 0.8 bln USD.
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