MINSK, 26 May (BelTA) – Belarus' foreign trade went up by 21.6% in January-April 2017, as compared to the same period in 2016, to total $18.3 billion, BelTA learned from the State Customs Committee.
The share of trade with the CIS member states totaled 61.5%. The export to the CIS increased by 29.8% to $5.1 billion, the import rose 23.6% to $6.2 billion.
The trade with the European Union went up 6.2%, with the export and import totaling $2.1 billion and $1.8 billion respectively.
Belarus' major foreign trade partners are Russia, Ukraine, China, Germany, the UK, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, and Kazakhstan.
Belarus' main exports include oil products, potash fertilizers, dairy products (cheese and curd, milk and condensed cream, butter and dairy paste), trucks, tractors. Belarus' main imports comprise crude oil, oil gases and oil products.
