Baku, Azerbaijan, August 26
By Fakhri Vakilov - Trend:
The deals concluded on the Uzbek Commodity Exchange (UZEX) for the period from August 12-18, 2019, amounted to 856.1 billion soums, which is 11.9 percent more than in the preceding week, Trend reports with reference to UZEX.
The total amount of transactions involving small businesses and private entrepreneurship amounted to 464 billion soums, thus exceeding the same indicator of the previous week by 9.7 percent.
The volume of exchange trading on the platform increased from 655.4 to 742.6 billion soums.
At the foreign exchange trading platform, goods worth $2.9 million were sold for export, which is 31.8 percent more than a week earlier. In the export structure, polyethylene occupied 63 percent, cotton fiber 27 percent and other products 10 percent.
The volume of exhibition and fair trade amounted to 33.1 billion soums. The amount of goods purchased by small businesses amounted to 3.6 billion soums, or 10.1 percent of the total amount of transactions.
Last week, transactions for 77.4 billion soums were concluded through xarid.uz, a special information portal on public procurement.
The total amount of savings from budgetary and corporate customers exceeded 17.2 billion soums.
During the period under review, 682 car license plates were sold through an online auction. The cumulative amount of sold state license plates was about 3 billion soums.
As a result of competitive bidding, 20.5 percent of deals were made on premium class license plates, 45.9 percent of deals on category 2 and 33.6 percent on category 3 of license plates.
($1 = 9376.03 soums on August 14)
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