Belarus’ foreign trade deficit stood at $2.397 billion in January-September to compare with a $1.844 billion deficit in January-September 2015, according to the National Statistics Committee (Belstat). Commodity exports decreased by 15.7% YoY, to $17.245 billion, while imports decreased by 11.9%, to $19.642 billion. Exports from Belarus included $10.422 billion worth of supplies to the…
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry expects exports to Vietnam to rise by 50% in dollar terms in 2016, First Deputy Minister Alexey Likhachev said. “Vietnam is the only big country with positive rates of mutual trade last year and in the first seven months of this year even in dollars. The dollar puts a substantial pressure…
Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Kenya with residence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Elman Abdullayev said Azerbaijan and Kenya were determined to establish trade and business links. “We are very much ready to explore Kenyan market for Azerbaijan goods”, Abdullayev said. “And of course, we plan to launch a joint initiative to boost trade between the two countries.…
Azerbaijan and Dagestan have agreed to implement a number of joint projects in the spheres of trade and agriculture, Head of Dagestan Republic of the Russian Federation Ramazan Abdulatipov said at the agrarian forum “Dagestan’s Golden Autumn”. “There is an agreement with the Azerbaijani side to open a large store of Dagestan’s goods in Azerbaijan’s…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Qatar’s Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the head of Al Faisal Holding, stressed at the meeting that the fuel and energy sector, transport and communications were priority vectors of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Qatar, the Turkmen government said in a message. According to the message, the agreements reached the…
Belarus’ trade turnover with Poland grew by 10% in January-August, the Belarusian government said in a press-release following the latest meeting of the Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov and Poland’s Vice Premier Mateusz Morawiecki. While meeting with the Polish vice premier, Kobyakov suggested that the parties should go further than just expanding export/import transactions and…
Azerbaijan calls on Croatian companies to invest in the country’s agriculture, tourism, IT and chemical industry, Rufat Mammadov, head of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO), said. He added that favorable conditions had been created in Azerbaijan for making investments, as well as for activity in industrial and technology parks. “Tourism sector is…