In 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…
Foreign 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…
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…
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…
On July 18 a working forum with the participation of entrepreneurs organized by the ministries of economy and agriculture was held in Khirdalan city. As part of the forum, the participants were given detailed information about the mechanism for obtaining preferential loans from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund under the Ministry of Economy, presentations were held…