In the Department for Trade Development of the Mineconomdevelopment they informed that Ukrainians spent 271.6 billion UAH (more than 85% of total costs and savings) on purchase of goods and services, since January 2013.
In general, tax revenues from trade since the start of the year have amounted to 19.8 billion UAH, or 13.8% of total payments. And the average wage of workers of trade was 2969 UAH.
The share of trade in the first quarter of 2013 took the first place in the structure of gross value added by economic activity at current prices and amounted to 18.5% compared to the first quarter of 2012 the increase in gross value added in trade was 3.1%.
Retail trade turnover in January-June this year increased by 11.2% to 397.6 billion UAH.
This year was held more than 32 thousand food fairs (it's nearly 10,000 more than last year) with participation of agricultural producers, which sold 244.4 thousand tons of agricultural products (almost two times more than last year) on the sum of 3,079,4 mln UAH.
