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Trade volume decreases in Kazakhstan

Business Materials 9 June 2016 15:16 (UTC +04:00)
The physical volume of retail trade has decreased in Kazakhstan during the period from September 2015 to March 2016.
Trade volume decreases in Kazakhstan

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 9

By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:

The physical volume of retail trade has decreased in Kazakhstan during the period from September 2015 to March 2016, according to the Energyprom.kz analytical service.

The physical volume of retail trade has averagely decreased by 2.3 per month since early 2016.

This is while the trade turnover in monetary terms has gradually increased from October 2015 (by 3.3 percent as compared to the same period of 2014) to April 2016 (by 23.1 percent as compared to the same period of 2015).

The physical volume of wholesale trade has also decreased. It has decreased averagely by 7.7 percent per month since early 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015.

The share of food products in the retail sale has increased to 36.3 percent in January-April 2016. Currently, the trade turnover has primarily concentrated in Almaty and Astana which are the two largest cities of Kazakhstan.

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