BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 21
By Zeyni Jafarov - Trend:
The export of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages from Azerbaijan amounted to $5.1 million during the first four months of 2021, which shows increase of 6.9 percent for the year, Trend reports on May 21 with reference to the statistics bulletin of the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee.
The share of these products in the country's total export increased by 0.08 percent.
Moreover, the import operations for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages increased by $2.4 million (13.2 percent) for the year, the volume amounted to $20.6 million.
The share of these products in the total import volume of Azerbaijan amounted to 0.59 percent, having increased by 0.05 percentage points for the year.
The volume of foreign trade turnover of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages amounted to $25.8 million from January through April 2021, which is by 11.9 percent, or $2.7 million, more than in the same period of 2020.
In general, Azerbaijan's foreign trade turnover from January through April 2021 amounted to almost $9.9 billion. Some $6.4 billion (64.33 percent) of that volume accounted for export while $3.5 billion (35.67 percent) for import.
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