News
17.07.2012
Ukraine increased grain share in the general commodity exports to the level of 9.6%
In January-May of 2012, the general commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 28.2 bln USD (an increase of 5.8% compared to the same period in 2011), imports – 33.9 bln USD (up 7.4%). The coverage ratio of exports to imports totaled 0.83 (in January-May of 2011 – 0.84), according to data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
The volume of commodity exports to the CIS countries formed 36.8% of the general exports, Asia – 27.2%, Europe – 24.5% (including the European Union countries - 24.1%), Africa - 8%; America – 3.3%.
In particular, the highest volumes of export supplies from Ukraine were provided to the Russian Federation – 26.5% from the general export volumes of commodities, Turkey – 5.6%, Egypt – 4.2%, Poland – 4.1%, Kazakhstan – 3.8%, India – 3.6% and Italy– 3.5%.
The share of grain products in the general volumes of commodity exports increased from the level of 3.7% to 9.6% compared to the reporting period of 2011.
The volume of imports from the CIS countries formed 41.3% of the general imports, Europe - 32% (including the European Union – 30.5%), Asia - 19.4%, America - 6%, Africa - 1%, Australia and Oceania – 0.3%. Ukraine received most import supplies from the following certain countries: the Russian Federation – 33.2%, China – 8.1%, Germany – 7.9%, Belarus – 5.8%, the USA – 4.2%, Poland – 3.9%, Italy – 2.9%.
During 5 months of 2012, Ukraine received foreign raw materials, supplied by customer, at the sum of 1.44 bln USD (down 4.3%). The volume of exports of finished products made from import raw materials totaled 2.14 bln USD (down 6.4% compared to January-May of 2011).
The credit balance deficit totaled 5.7 bln USD, as opposed to 4.9 bln USD in the same period of 2011.
