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Belarus-EU trade reported down 28.7 percent in first four months of 2013

Belarus' trade with member countries of the European Union decreased by 28.7 percent year-on-year in the first four months of 2013 to total $7,396.6 billion, compared with a 46.1-percent increase in the same period the previous year, reported the National Statistical Committee (Belstat).

According to Belstat, Belarus' exports to EU member countries decreased by 46.3 percent year-on-year to total $4,226 billion, while imports from the EU increased by 26.2 percent to total $3,170.6 billion.

Belarus' exports of goods to Russia totaled $5,271.2 billion in January-April 2013, or 3.9 percent more than in the same period in 2012, with imports from Russia falling by 25.2 percent to total $7,630.1 billion.

Exports to Ukraine fell by 15.7 percent to total $1,360.7 billion and imports from Ukraine rose by 23.1 percent to total $706.2 million.

Exports to the Netherlands totaled $1,923 billion, down 51.2 percent from the same period in 2012.

Exports to Germany decreased by 4.8 percent to total $573.8 million, exports to Poland by 24.3 percent to total $257.3 million, exports to Latvia by 88.8 percent to total $184.9 million and exports to Lithuania by 29.7 percent to total $284 million.

Exports to China increased by 84.1 percent to total $250 million, exports to Italy by 27.1 percent to $384 million, exports to the United Kingdom by 200 percent to total $268.8 million, exports to France by 53.4 percent to total $26.1 million, and exports to the United States by 35.4 percent to total $29.9 million

In the first four months of 2013, Belarus imported $123.4 million worth of goods from the Netherlands, down 1.9 percent from the same period in 2012, $1,004.7 billion from Germany, up 48.7 percent; $823 million from China, up 42.7 percent; $452.3 million from Poland, up 16.4 percent; $300.9 million from Italy, up14.9 percent; $111 million from the United Kingdom, up 10.2 percent; $118.7 million from Lithuania, up 32.2 percent; $51.3 million from Latvia, up 31.7 percent; $174.9 million from the United States, up 6.7 percent; and $161.8 million from France, up 23.9 percent. //BelaPAN