In 2020 Moldova increased the export of alcoholic beverages in value terms by 8.4% - up to $210.85 million relative to 2019.
According to the data of the balance of payments of Moldova for the last year, the supply of Moldovan wines and cognacs abroad has been steadily growing every quarter. In particular, in the first quarter of 2020, they amounted to $45.8 million, in the second quarter of 2020 - $50.76 million, in the third quarter of 2020 - $53.39 million, and in the fourth quarter of 2020 - $60.9 million versus $42.11 million, $45.34 million, $50.64 million and $56.43 million in the same periods of the previous year. As noted by the National Bank of Moldova (NBM), in general, in 2020, relative to the previous year, the total volume of alcohol exports to the EU countries increased by 26.6% - from $64.69 million to $81.93 million, to the CIS countries - decreased by 15.2% - from $73.66 million to $62.43 million, and to states outside the European Union and the CIS increased by 18.4% - from $56.17 million to $66.49 million. In the fourth quarter of 2020, compared to the same period of the previous year, the export of Moldovan wine and brandy products increased by 7.9%, and this growth was due to an increase in supplies to the EU countries by 12.3% - from $20.12 million to $22.6 million, as well as to states outside the EU and the CIS, by 26.5% - from $15.19 million to $19.21 million. At the same time, exports to the CIS decreased by 9.6% - from $21.12 million to $19.09 million. At the same time, in the IV quarter of 2020, relative to the same period of the previous year, the supply of Moldovan wine products to Romania increased by 28.5% - from $6.24 million to $8.02 million, to Poland - by 25.1% - from $3.62 million to $4.53 million, to China - by 14.9% - from $3.55 million to $4.08 million, to Turkey - 2.9 times - from $1.27 million to $3.64 million, to Ukraine - by 34.4% - from $2.44 million to $3.28 million, to the Czech Republic - 4.6% - from $2.81 million to $2.94 million, to Serbia - by 47.1% - from $1.19 million to $1.75 million, to the USA - by 3.1% - from $1.62 million to $1.67 million, to the UK - by 24.8% - from $1.33 million to $1.66 million, to Canada - by 76.2% - from $0.42 million to $0.74 million, to Slovakia - by 78.8% - from $0.33 million to $0.59 million, to Lithuania - by 55.9% - from $0.34 million to $0.53 million, to Germany - by 13 % - from $0.46 million to $0.52 million, to Latvia - by 16.7% - from $0.36 million to $0.42 million. During the same period, supplies of Moldovan alcoholic beverages to Belarus decreased by 3.9% - from $10.76 million to $10.34 million, to Russia - by 36.2% - from $5.53 million to $3.53 million, to Georgia - by 22.2% - from $3.7 million to $2.88 million, to Kazakhstan - by 13.6% - from $1.69 million to $1.46 million, to Bulgaria - by 2.7% - from $1.48 million to $1.44 million, the Netherlands - by 26.8% - from $2.01 million to $1.27 million, to Greece - by 23.7% - from $1.39 million to $1.06 million, Armenia - 24 times - from $0.48 million to $0.02 million. It should be noted that the total data for each country for the whole of 2020 are not provided in the Balance of Payments. // 22.04.2021 – InfoMarket
