The Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan says Tajikistan’s total trade turnover with all Central Asia’s countries over the first eleven months of 2023 has valued at little more than 1.539 billion US dollars, which is 17 percent fewer than in the same period of 2022.
In January-November 2023, the bilateral trade of Tajikistan with Kyrgyzstan reportedly reduced by 20 percent, the bilateral trade with Uzbekistan reduced by 10.3 percent, with Turkmenistan by 13.5 percent and by Kyrgyzstan by 21.7 percent.
In Central Asia, the major trading partners of Tajikistan were Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In January-November 2023, the bilateral trade of Tajikistan with Kazakhstan valued at more than 1 billion U.S. dollars and the bilateral trade with Uzbekistan over the reporting period valued at more than 450 million U.S. dollars.
Over the same eleven-month period, the bilateral trade between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan reportedly valued at more than 40 million US dollars.
As far as the bilateral trade between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan over the reporting period, it fell to “obscenely” low level – 10 million US dollars.
Recall, Kyrgyzstan unilaterally closed its common border with Tajikistan in early May 2021 after an armed conflict along a disputed segment of the border left 36 Kyrgyz nationals, including two children, dead and 154 injured on the Kyrgyz side of the border.
Trade between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan now occurs in small volumes through the territories of third countries.
Meanwhile, over the first eleven months of 2023, Tajikistan’s external trade turnover amounted to about 6.8 billion US dollars, which is 2.2 billion US dollars more than in the same period of 2022.
The Agency for Statistics says exports of goods over the first eleven months of 2023 amounted to little more than 1.6 billion US dollars and imports of goods into the country in January-November 2023 amounted to more than 5.1 billion US dollars.
The trade balance over the reporting was negative, amounting to 3.5 billion US dollars.
In January-November 2023, Tajikistan reportedly had trade relations with 119 countries, including 9 CIS member nations.
Over the reporting eleven-month period, the major trading partners of Tajikistan were: Russia – 22.6 percent of the overall volume of Tajikistan’s external trade turnover in January-November 2023; China – 19.6 percent; and Kazakhstan – 15.3 percent.
