During January-April of 2011, commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 20.9 bln USD, imports – 24.8 bln USD, which formed the growth of export indices by 44.4%, and imports – up 52.3% 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 6.1% to 3.2% 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 5.1% to 5.9%, seeds and species of oilseeds – from 1.1% to 2.5%.

Ukraine provided foreign trading contracts with partners from 203 countries of the world.

In particular, the highest volumes of export supplies from Ukraine were provided to the Russian Federation – 27.5% from the general export volumes of commodities, Turkey – 6.3%, Italy – 5.4%, Poland – 4.3%, Belarus – 3.2%, India – 2.9%, Germany – 2.8%.

Ukraine received most import supplies from the Russian Federation – 41.3%, Germany – 7.9%, China – 6.6%, Poland – 3.5%, Belarus – 4%, the USA – 3.3%, Italy – 2.1%.

During 4 months of 2011 export volumes of customer-supplied raw materials totaled 29 mln USD, an increase of 81.4% compared to the volumes in January-April 2010. At the same time, Ukraine imported finished products made from raw materials at the sum of 24.4 mln USD (up 68.4% compared to the corresponding period of the last year).

Ukraine received foreign raw materials at the sum of 1.46 bln USD (up 80.1% compared to January-April 2010). The volume of exports of finished products from import raw materials totaled 1.75 bln USD (up 74.7% compared to January-March 2010).

During four months of 2011, the credit balance deficit totaled 3.83 bln USD as opposed to 1.76 bln USD in the same period of 2010.

In April 2011, commodity exports from Ukraine grew by 33.2% compared to April 2010 indices, and totaled 5.6 bln USD, the imports grew by 36.8% and totaled 6.29 bln USD. In April 2011, credit balance deficit totaled 693 mln USD (in the reporting month of 2010 – 396.2 mln USD).

Source from AgrimarketInfo