In January-June Belarus reduced the import of goods and services by 11% to $14.15 billion in comparison with the same period last year, the official website of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus reported. In January-June Belarus’ foreign trade was down by 13.6% YoY, to $28.156 billion. Export totaled $14 billion, down by…
State support helped the companies affiliated with the Industry Ministry increase output, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said. “Support provided to the companies of the Industry Ministry during this complicated period helped them increase the output by 0.7% over 2015 and 1.4% in January-July 2016. Backlog of inventories was reduced by almost Br2 trillion (non-redenominated)”,…
Belarus’ revenues from export trade in oil products and potash fertilizers dropped by $1.7 billion in January-May due to low prices, Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said. Although Belarus increased exports in physical terms, export revenues fell by 1.1% YoY, said Kobyakov. According to him, the only way for Belarus to compensate for missing revenues…
Representatives of Belarus’ business community will be authorized to evaluate the regulatory impact of regulatory acts on business environment, in accordance with a bill prepared by the Economy Ministry of Belarus. Posted on the ministry’s official web site, the document will be forwarded for approving to the head of state. The document says that the…
Companies controlled by Belarus’ petrochemical industries concern Belneftekhim produced a $339 million foreign trade surplus in January-June, Belneftekhim said in a release. In physical terms, petrochemical exports remained unchanged year on year in H1 2016. In value terms, exports of chemical and petrochemical products have dropped by more than $1 billion due to the drop…
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus forecasts the general harvest of grains and pulses in the current year at the last year level – nearly 8.4 million tons, Leonid Zayats, Minister of Agriculture said. Also, the Minister noted that the public grain reserves would total nearly 1.086 million tons. It…
As of August 9, agricultural organizations of Belarus harvested grains and pulses throughout 1.484 million ha, or 67.2% of the planned areas, down by 48.5 thousand ha YoY. The average yield totaled 3.47 t/ha, the harvested volumes – 5.146 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus declared. Agrarians have…