Foreign trade deficit during 5 months 2013 amounts to $2 432.8 billion
State Statistics Service reports.
In January-May 2013 export of goods fell by 3.5% - to $ 27.19 billion, imports - by 12.7%, to $ 29.6 billion.
According to the State Statistics, «Negative balance is contributed by certain commodity groups: mineral fuels, oil and refining products ($ -5.6 billion), vehicles, except rail ($ -2.1 billion), electrical machinery ($ -1 2 billion), plastics, polymers ($ -1.2 billion), mechanical machinery ($ -1.1.), pharmaceuticals ($ -934.3 million)».
Export to import ratio is 0.92 (January-May 2012 – 0.83).
Most significant exports were to Russia - 23.7% of the total export (steel, railway locomotives, mechanical machinery), Turkey - 6% (ferrous metals, fertilizers, cereals), China - 4.5% (ore, slag and ash, fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin, mechanical machinery), Italy - 4% (ferrous metals, grains, seeds and oleaginous fruits), Poland - 3.8% (ferrous metals, ores, slag and ash, electric machines), Kazakhstan - 3.4% (ferrous metals, railway locomotives, mechanical machinery) and Egypt - 3.2% (ferrous metals, cereals, fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin).
Imports from Europe amounted to 36.1% of total imports, with 34% - from the European Union, 34.7% from CIS countries, Asia - 21.4%, America - 6.5%, Africa - 1.1%, Australia and Oceania - 0.1%.
