In the first quarter of 2011, commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 15.38 bln USD, imports – 18.516 bln USD, which formed the growth of export indices by 49.2%, and imports – up 58.5% compared to the same period of 2010, respectively, according to data of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.

The share of grain products in the general volumes of commodity exports decreased from 6.8% to 3.7% compared to the reporting period of 2010. At the same time, the share of fats and oils of both animal and vegetable origin grew from the level of 5% to 6.3%, seeds and fruits of oilseeds – from 1.1% to 2.7%.

Ukraine provided foreign trading contracts with partners from 196 countries of the world.

In Particular, the highest volumes of export supplies from Ukraine were provided to the Russian Federation – 27.2% from the general export volumes of commodities, Turkey – 6.4%, Italy – 5%, Poland – 4.3%, Belarus and India – 3.3% each, China – 3%.

Ukraine received most import supplies from the Russian Federation – 43.4%, Germany – 7.7%, China – 6.7%, Poland – 3.4%, Belarus – 3.8%, the USA – 3.1%, Italy – 1.9%.

During 3 months of 2011 export volumes of customer-supplied raw materials totaled 26.2 mln USD, an increase of 2.6 times compared to the volumes in January-March 2010. At the same time, Ukraine imported finished products made from raw materials at the sum of 16 mln USD (up 26.4% compared to the corresponding period of the last year).

Ukraine received foreign raw materials at the sum of 610.2 mln USD (up 69.3% against January-March 2010). The volume of exports of finished products from import raw materials totaled 1.256 bln USD (up 84.3% compared to January-March 2010).

In the first quarter of 2011, the credit balance deficit totaled 3.133 bln USD as opposed to 1.372 bln USD in the same period of 2010.

In March 2011, commodity exports from Ukraine grew by 52.5% compared to March 2010 indices, and totaled 6 bln USD, the imports grew by 49.6% and totaled 7.04 bln USD. In March 2011, credit balance deficit totaled 1.04 bln USD (in the reporting month of 2010 – 773 mln USD).

Source AgriMarket.Info