Over 50 per cent of goods produced in Gagauz autonomy exported to EU
15:41 | 23.10.2014 Category: Regional
Chisinau, 23 October / MOLDPRES / - More than half of the production from the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yeri) is exported to European Union member states, according to a report on the social and economic development of the autonomy in the first half of 2014.
According to the document, in the first half of this year, the volume of goods shipped to Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries decreased by 27.1 per cent, while the amount of goods exported to the EU increased by 22.8 per cent against the same period of 2013. Thus, only 24.3 per cent of the total exports, worth 158.4 million lei, went to CIS countries. This is due to 85.1-per cent drop in deliveries to Russia, 36.7- per cent decrease of exports to Ukraine and 13.4-per cent - in Kyrgyzstan. At the same time, the sales of goods from Gagauz Yeri to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Georgia significantly increased.
On the other hand, the volume of goods supplied to the EU amounted to 358.2 million lei, accounting for 55.1 per cent of the autonomy's exports. In the analysed period, a rise in exports to eight of the 18 European countries importing goods from the region was recorded. Thus, the sales of Gagauz products to Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy grew, according to the Gagauzinfo.md portal.
As much as 57.3 per cent of the all the Gagauz exports goes to Turkey (113.1 million lei), Bulgaria (86 million lei), Romania (64 million lei), Russia (55.5 million lei) and Poland (54.5 million lei).
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