The State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan reports that in January-October 2021, Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover reached $ 32.65 billion, which, compared to the same period in 2020, increased by $ 2.55 billion (an increase of 8.5%).
Of the total volume of the WTO, exports amounted to $ 12.43 billion (by January-October 2020, a decrease of 6.7% was noted), and imports – $ 20.22 billion (an increase of 20.5%).
As a result, the balance of foreign trade turnover amounted to a passive balance in the amount of $ 7.78 billion.
Among the 20 large partner countries in foreign economic activity, there is also an active foreign trade balance with four countries, in particular with such as Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey. The other 16 countries maintain a passive balance of foreign trade turnover.
Today Uzbekistan maintains trade relations with 179 countries of the world. The largest volume of foreign trade turnover was recorded with the PRC (18.6%), the Russian Federation (18.0%), Kazakhstan (9.7%), Turkey (8.3%), the Republic of Korea (4.7%), Kyrgyzstan ( 2.4%) and Germany (1.9%).
In the structure of the foreign trade turnover of the republic, a significant share is noted in the city of Tashkent, which is 40.3%, or $ 13.17 billion, and the smallest share is recorded at the level of 1.1%, or $ 345.2 million, which is noted in the Surkhandarya region. …
The share of foreign trade turnover of the CIS countries, compared to the same period in 2020, increased by 6.5% and their share in foreign trade turnover, in January-October 2021, amounted to 37.8%.
The volume of foreign trade turnover of other states in January-October 2021, compared to the same period of 2019-2020, accordingly decreased 6.5% and amounted to 62.2% of the total foreign trade turnover.
The foreign trade turnover of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the CIS countries reached $ 12.34 billion, of which the volume of exports amounted to $ 4.29 billion, and the volume of imports – $ 8.04 billion.
The largest volume of foreign trade turnover with the CIS countries was recorded with the Russian Federation (47.5%), Kazakhstan (25.6%) and Kyrgyzstan (6.3%).
The foreign trade turnover of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the EAEU countries amounted to $ 10.11 billion, of which the volume of exports amounted to $ 3.32 billion, and the volume of imports – $ 6.79 billion.
In January-October 2021, the total number of exporting entities amounted to 6,035 units, which ensured the increase in the volume of exports without gold to $ 10.07 billion (an increase, compared to the same period in 2020, amounted to 33.9%).
In the structure of exports, 83.3% are goods, which mainly fall on industrial goods (28.0%), food products and live animals (8.7%), chemicals and similar products (6.9%).
Due to a decrease in exports to other foreign countries, the share of exports to the CIS countries increased and their share in its total volume amounted to 34.5%.
Compared to 2019-2020, our main partners in the export of goods and services in foreign trade in January-October 2021 were countries such as China, the Russian Federation, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Their share in the total export volume reached 61.2%.
In the structure of the republic’s exports, a significant share is noted in the city of Tashkent, which is 25.2%, or $ 3.13 billion, and the smallest share is recorded at 1.3%, or $ 161.1 million in the Jizzakh region.
The volume of exports of fruits and vegetables amounted to 1 233.9 thousand tons and, in value terms, exceeded $ 747.4 million (the rate of decline, compared to the same period in 2020, respectively, amounted to 8.7%). On the basis of this, 649.1 thousand tons of vegetables were exported for $ 298.0 million, as well as 267.2 thousand tons of fruits and berries for $ 241.5 million.
In January-October 2021, the share of fruits and vegetables in total exports amounted to 6.0%.
The main export markets for fruit and vegetable products are in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the PRC.
According to the results of January-October 2021, the largest volume in value terms of exports of fruits and vegetables falls on the Russian Federation (32.7% of the total volume of fruits and vegetables), which exceeds the volume of exports to China by 4.4 times.
According to the results of January-October 2021, the export of textile products was carried out in the amount of 2,380.9 million US dollars, which amounted to 19.1% of the total export volume and, compared to January-October 2020, it increased by 56.3 %.
In the structure of export of textile products, the main share is taken by cotton yarn (55.3%), as well as finished knitwear and garments (22.3%). In January-October 2021, more than 499 types of textile products were exported to 64 countries of the world.
The largest share of textile exports falls on the Russian Federation ($ 736.7 million – 30.9%) and China ($ 572.9 million – 24.1%).
The volume of exports of services in January-October 2021 amounted to $ 2.07 billion, or 16.7% of the total volume of trade exports and increased, compared to the same period in 2020, by 27.7%. The largest part of the export of services is occupied by transport services (69.3%), travel (tourism) (15.1%), telecommunications, computer and information services.
Source: UzDaily.uz
