Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug.22
By Anvar Mammadov - Trend:
The total value of imports of Azerbaijani construction materials to Georgia decreased by 2.04 times in January-July 2015, the Georgian National Statistics Service's report as of January-July 2015 said.
Around 47,060 metric tons of construction gypsum and other anhydrite totaling $6.45 million were imported from Azerbaijan to Georgia during this period.
In quantitative terms, the volume of imports of construction materials from Azerbaijan reduced by 38.84 percent compared to the same period of 2014.
For comparison, around 76,950 metric tons of construction materials in the amount of $13,150 million were imported to Georgia in January-July 2014.
The share of construction materials in Azerbaijan's total export volume to Georgia for the period amounted to 2.04 percent.
According to the report, Georgia imported goods worth $316.08 million from Azerbaijan in January-July 2015.
Azerbaijan ranks third in the list of the countries from which Georgia imports products. Georgian imports most of goods from Turkey. The volume of Georgia's imports from Turkey totaled $745.27 million, followed by China with $353.52 million.
Georgia mainly imports gas, oil products, building materials, electric power and other products from Azerbaijan.
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