DUSHANBE, September 16, 2014, Asia-Plus — Over the first eight months of this year, the external trade turnover of Tajikistan, including electrical power and natural gas, has amounted to more than 3.8 billion U.S. dollars, which was 111.3 percent of the January-August 2013 level or 386.3 million USD more, according the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
The trade balance was negative and amounted to 2.4 billion U.S. dollars.
Over the first eight months of this year, exports of goods have amounted to 697.2 million U.S. dollars, which was 14.3 percent fewer than in the same period last year.
Over the same eight-month period, imports of goods into the country have amounted to more than 3.1 billion U.S. dollars, which was 16.5 percent more than in January-August 2013.
In January-August this year, Tajikistan has had trade relations with 93 countries of the world, including ten CIS nations.
In January-August 2014, major trading partners of Tajikistan were: Russia – more than 968 million USD; Kazakhstan – more than 521 million USD; China – some 510 million USD; Turkey – more than 378 million USD; and Switzerland – some 318 million USD.
We will recall that in 2013 the external trade turnover of Tajikistan amounted to some 5 billion U.S. dollars, which was 102.9 percent of the 2012 level or 146.7 million U.S. dollars more.
