Ukrainian companies increased retail trade by 17.9% YoY in the first half of 2019, according to the State Statistics Service. In January-June the retail turnover of retail trade enterprises (legal entities) amounted to UAH 363.8 billion. The leader in terms of retail trade in the first half of 2019 was the city of Kyiv (UAH…
Over $5 billion in foreign investment entered Ukraine in the past three months. “For the first time in the last five years, these are neither budget funds, nor politically motivated money, nor those from the IMF or the World Bank. Even despite the lack of cooperation with the IMF, foreign investors have started to invest,”…
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that the government was considering broadening the property tax base and taxing polluting cars. The International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have called on Lithuania for years to broaden its property tax base. Last year, the government moved to tax second, third and further residential properties owned by one…
Russia’s largest truck producer Kamaz more than quadrupled its truck production in Uzbekistan to 585 vehicles in January-June, Uzavtoprom said in a statement. “UzAuto Trailer produced 585 trucks of Kamaz in the first half of 2019. It is 4.2 times higher than in the same period of last year,” the statement read. Kamaz launched production…
In the first 5 months of 2019 Azerbaijan imported 551.1 thousand tons of wheat, up by 14.6% YoY, reported the State Customs Committee. Imports in monetary terms increased even more significantly – by 47.9%, to $124.5 million. Moreover, in January-May the imports of sugar increased to 136.1 thousand tons (up 6.2-fold) at $51.158 million (up…
During the first half of 2019, MHP poultry exports increased by 43% YoY and reached 190.5 thousand tons. “MHP continued to follow a strategy of both geographic diversification and of a product mix optimization building-up the export volumes of chicken meat across the MENA, the EU, Africa and Asia. Total poultry exports in H1 constituted…
Revenues from single social contribution totaling UAH 131.4 billion were transferred to the state budget in the first half of 2019, according to the data provided by the State Fiscal Service. “In January-June revenues from the single social contribution for compulsory state social insurance totaled UAH 131.4 billion, up by UAH 23.6 billion or by…