BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 2
By Nargiz Ismayilova - Trend:
Export sales via Azerbaijan's Azexport website amounted to $102.9 million from January through February 2020, which is 29.32 percent less compared to the period from January through February 2019, Trend reports referring to the country’s Export Review of the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication.
Over the past 38 months, the Azexport website has accepted orders for the supply of non-oil products from Azerbaijan in the amount of $1.7 billion.
Among the top 10 goods exported via the Azexport website in February 2020 were cotton, chicken eggs, garlic, potatoes, tobacco, chicken, wine, confectionery, tea, pomegranate concentrate and wine, furniture, building materials, hazelnuts, cosmetics, apples, onions, paint, mushrooms and other products.
The Azexport resource (www.azexport.az) was created upon the president’s order on creating a unified database of goods manufactured in Azerbaijan dated September 21, 2016. The main products exported are tobacco, chicken and eggs, hazelnuts, cottonseed oil, wine, pomegranate, onions, cosmetics, medical gauze, furniture, paint, confectionery, milk with fruit additives, mineral water and garlic.
The goal of the website, which is managed by the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication, is to provide information on products of Azerbaijani origin; it is an effective platform for their selling in foreign and domestic markets.
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