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Georgia cuts imports of Azerbaijani products by 15%

Business Materials 27 March 2015 10:20 (UTC +04:00)
In January-February 2015, Georgia imported products amounting to $100.7 million from Azerbaijan

Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar.27

By Azad Hasanli - Trend:

In January-February 2015, Georgia imported products amounting to $100.7 million from Azerbaijan, states the report on Gruzstat (National Statistical Service of Georgia) foreign trade on the first two months of 2015.

The volume of imports from Azerbaijan to Georgia fell by 15 percent, according to the report. For comparison, during the same period in 2014, Georgia imported Azerbaijani goods worth $118.5 million.

Azerbaijan occupies the second place in the list of countries from which Georgia imports the products. The share of Azerbaijan's exported goods in total amount of goods imported in Georgia is 9.1 percent.

Most goods Georgia imports from Turkey. In January-February of this year the volume of Georgian imports from Turkey amounted to $198.29 million, or 17.9 percent of total imports.

China ranked second with $97.7 million and a weight of 8.8 percent of the total Georgian imports.

The main items of Georgian import from Azerbaijan are gasoline, oil, building materials, electricity, glass, margarine and other products.

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