ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, December 29. Turkmenistan imported mineral products from EU countries totaling 13.86 million euros from January through October of this year, the source at Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, told Trend.
These results for the reporting period are 42.6 percent higher than those for the first ten months of the previous year (9.72 million euros).
Turkmenistan bought mineral products from the EU worth 1.11 million euros in October 2023, 17.1 percent less than the 1.12 million euros imported in September 2023 (1.34 million euros).
At the same time, Turkmenistan raised its imports from EU nations by ten percent in the first ten months of this year compared to the same period last year (493.74 million euros), reaching a total of 543.3 million euros.
The previous year's trade transaction between Turkmenistan and EU countries totaled one billion euros, a 25.9 percent decrease from 2021, when it stood at 1.35 billion euros.