BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 19. Businessmen of Afghanistan purchased gasoline during trading on July 18 at the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan, Trend reports citing Orient news.
Entrepreneurs from Afghanistan purchased 3,000 tons of RON-92 brand gasoline on the exchange at a price of $1 044.5 per ton. The total amount of the transaction was $3.3 million.
Furthermore, according to the exchange, the price of Turkmen RON-92 brand gasoline increased by 1.9 percent compared to previous transactions.
Meanwhile, businessmen from Afghanistan on July 14 also purchased liquefied natural gas on the Turkmen exchange in the amount of $2.8 million.
The State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan was established on July 29, 1994. It is the most important body of state regulation of export-import operations.