BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.26
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Portugal imported 220,149 tons of oil and petroleum products from Azerbaijan from January through June 2020, as compared to 835,000 tons for the same period of 2019, Eurostat told Trend.
The country imported 138,550 tons in February and 81,599 tons in April 2020.
This is while in 2019, Portugal imported 139,000 tons in January, 139,000 tons in March, 140,000 tons in April, 278,000 tons in May, 139,000 tons in June, 140,000 tons in July, 139,000 tons in August, 138,000 tons in December.
Azerbaijan exported 19.5 million tons of oil from January through July 2020, which is 0.02 percent more compared to the same period of 2019, according to the statistical report of the State Customs Committee (SCC).
According to the report, the total volume of exports of petroleum products in the reporting period amounted to $6.3 billion, showing an annual decrease of 48.6 percent.
During seven months of 2020, the volume of exports of petroleum products amounted to almost 705,797 tons, which is 15.4 percent more compared to the same period of last year.
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