In the period from January to November, Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover (FTO) reached $37.9 billion. Compared to last year, it increased by $4.9 billion (15%), the press service of the State Statistics Committee reported.
According to the Committee, exports amounted to $15.4 billion (8.9%) and imports – 22.4 billion (19.7%). At the same time, the balance of the republic’s foreign trade turnover reached a passive balance of $7 billion.
Recently, there has been an active foreign trade balance of Uzbekistan with four countries: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey. Uzbekistan carries out trade relations with 181 countries of the world. The republic trades the most with China (17.7%) and Russia (17.4%). Then are Kazakhstan (9.3%), Turkey (8%), Korea (4.4%), Kyrgyzstan (2.2%) and Germany (1.8%). (Uzreport/Business World Magazine)