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Foreign trade surplus reached US $4.3 bn over 9 months

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In January – September 2014 the negative balance of foreign trade in goods and services improved by US $10.2 bn compared with January – September 2013 and amounted to US $4.25 bn, reported the State Statistics Service.

In January – September 2014 the foreign trade turnover amounted to US $95 bn having decreased by US $20.2 bn (17.5%) compared with January – September 2013, according to the SSS.

In particular, the volume of trade with the CIS countries totaled US $30.1 bn having decreased by US $11.6 bn (27.8%) compared with January – September 2013.

At the same time, the SSS reported that export of services in January – September 2014 amounted to US $8.7 bn having decreased by 16.5% compared with January – September 2013.

Import of services amounted to US $4.3 bn having decreased by 20.7% compared with January – September 2013.

Yet export of goods has exceeded import by US $803.3 mn over nine months.

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