BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 21
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Entrepreneurs from Russia, the UAE, and Afghanistan purchased gasoline produced at Turkmenistan’s Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries in foreign currency on the State Commodity Exchange of Turkmenistan during last week, Trend reports with reference to Turkmenistan’s State News Agency.
In addition, entrepreneurs from Russia, the UAE, and Afghanistan purchased technical sulfur, liquefied gas, and gasoline for foreign currency.
Russia, China, the UAE, Turkey, Qatar, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan bought smooth-dyed and jacquard terry products and cotton yarn for foreign currency. In addition, the subject of transactions of entrepreneurs from Russia was fine-grained potassium chloride.
The total amount of transactions on the exchange in foreign currency exceeded $22.9 million.
Transactions were also made in Turkmen manat on Turkmenistan’s exchange. Thus, entrepreneurs from China, the UAE, Great Britain, Scotland, Qatar, India, and Kazakhstan purchased cotton yarn for the Turkmen manat.
The amount of the above-mentioned transactions amounted to more than 8.9 million manat ($2.5 million).
For the domestic market, local businessmen purchased polypropylene, handmade carpets, and plastic products for a total amount of over 47 million manat ($13.4 million).
In total, 119 transactions were registered on the exchange last week.
The State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan was established on July 29, 1994. It is the most important agency of state regulation of export-import operations.
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