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Azerbaijan, Turkey trade turnover doubles

Business Materials 13 July 2020 09:10 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijan, Turkey trade turnover doubles

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 13

By Eldar Janashvili – Trend:

Azerbaijan’s trade turnover with five major trading partners amounted to $6.6 billion from January through May 2020, and made up 59.5 percent of the country's total trade turnover, Trend reports citing the report of the State Customs Committee (SCC).

Italy has retained the status of Azerbaijan’s largest trading partner with the trade turnover of over $2.5 billion and a specific share of 23.33 percent.

The next is Turkey, with the trade turnover volume of $1.8 billion and the specific share of 16.74 percent. Its share increased by 6 percent and the volume of foreign trade operations with Azerbaijan increased more than twofold over the past two months. Turkey is followed by Russia - $1 billion (9.4 percent), China - $730.2 million (6.6 percent) and Ukraine - $388.3 million (3.5 percent).

Comparative table of TOP trade partners of Azerbaijan:

Jan. – May. 2020

Jan. – May. 2019

Countries

Trade turnover

Specific share

(in percent)

Countries

Trade turnover

Specific share

(in percent)

Italy

$2.5 billion

23.33

Italy

$2.7 billion

18.77

Turkey

$1.8 billion

16.74

Turkey

$1.5 billion

10.73

Russia

$1 billion

9.41

Russia

$1 billion

7.58

China

$730.1 million

6.6

China

$1 billion

5.18

In total, foreign trade operations of Azerbaijan with leading countries reached $2.81 billion in the first 5 months of 2020, which is 0.9 percent more compared to the indicator of the same period of 2019, which was $2.78 billion.

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