DUSHANBE, October 15, 2014, Asia-Plus — Over the first nine months of this year, the external trade turnover of Tajikistan, including electrical power and natural gas, has amounted to more than 4.3 billion U.S. dollars, which was 112.8 percent of the January-September 2013 level or 489.1 million USD more, according the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
The trade balance was negative and amounted to 2.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Over the first nine months of this year, exports of goods have amounted to 776.9 million U.S. dollars, which was 11.8 percent fewer than in the same period last year.
Over the same nine-month period, imports of goods into the country have amounted to more than 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, which was 20.2 percent more than in January-September 2013.
In January-September this year, Tajikistan has had trade relations with 96 countries of the world, including ten CIS nations.
In January-September 2014, major trading partners of Tajikistan were: Russia – more than 1 billion USD; Kazakhstan – more than 600 million USD; China – some 592 million USD; and Turkey – more than 456 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.
