In August the gas price for the population will decrease by at least 5.5% compared with the July price and will amount to no more than UAH 4,640 for a thousand cubic meters excluding VAT. “Despite the opposition of the monopolist, we have found a solution and forced Naftogaz to sell gas at a cheaper…
DetailsIn January-June Uzbekistan had trade relations with more than 166 countries. In particular, the foreign trade turnover in January-June amounted to $19.7 billion and increased by $4.52 billion, or 29.8%, compared to the corresponding period of 2018, according to the State Committee of Uzbekistan on Statistics. Of this amount, exports reached $8.4 billion (+27%), and…
DetailsForeign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Azerbaijan Valdas Lastauskas upon the termination of his diplomatic tenure. During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on the current state of bilateral relations, as well as the current level of and perspectives of…
DetailsA total of 3.5 million passengers were serviced at Latvia’s international airports in the first half-year of 2019, up by 9.6% YoY, according to data compiled by the Civil Aviation Agency (CAA). At the same time, the number of serviced flights has increased by 7.57%. While the number of serviced flights was 40,117 last year,…
DetailsUkrainian 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…
DetailsOver $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,”…
DetailsPrime 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…
DetailsRussia’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…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsDuring 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…
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