
Imports to Moldova in January-July 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, increased by 33.5%, amounting to $5 billion 111.8 million.
As InfoMarket was informed at the National Bureau of Statistics, at the same time, traditionally, most goods were imported into the country by road - 76.4% of the total. Sea transport accounted for 7.5% of total imports, rail transport - 4.9%, air transport - 1.6%, self-propelled imports - 0.5%, postal items - 0.1%, and the share of fixed transport installations (gas pipelines, electric networks) - 9% of the total import volume. In particular, the volume of imports to Moldova of products from EU countries for 7 months of 2022, compared with the same period in 2021, increased by 30.7% - up to $ 2 billion 362.9 million, from the CIS countries - increased by 49.2% - up to $ 1 billion 321.7 million. Import of goods from other states increased by 25.8% - up to $ 1 billion 427.2 million. The share of EU countries in the total volume of Moldovan imports decreased from 47.22% to 46.23%, the share of CIS countries increased from 23.14% to 25.86 %, while the share of other states decreased from 29.64% to 27.92%. The TOP countries that accounted for the largest volumes of Moldovan imports in January-July 2022 included: Romania (16.6% of total imports), Russia (14.3%), China (9.6%), Ukraine (9.4%), Turkey (6.9%), Germany (6.56%), Italy (5.2%), Poland (3.4%), India (2.8%), France (2.2%), Hungary (2.1%), USA (1.6%), Czech Republic and Bulgaria (1.5% each), Spain and Belarus (1.2% each), the Netherlands (1%), Austria (0.9%), Great Britain and Japan (0.8% each), Greece and South Korea (0.7% each), Belgium and Slovakia (0.6% each). At the same time, according to the NBS, while for 7 months. 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, imports to Moldova increased from Romania (1.8 times), Russia (1.6 times), Ukraine (+36.9%), India (5. 5 times), Turkey (+31%), China (+10.3%), Hungary (+45.6%), Bulgaria (up 1.6 times), Poland (+17.1%), Greece ( 2.1 times), the USA (+30.6%), Germany (+5.3%), France (+15.4%), the Netherlands (+26.9%), Turkmenistan (3.7 times ), Czech Republic (+13.7%), South Korea (+34.2%), Spain (+16.3%), Israel (2.1 times), Azerbaijan (9 times), Slovakia (+31 .6%), Serbia (+41.2%), Great Britain (+12.7%), Finland (+53.9%), Kazakhstan (+54.7%), Uzbekistan (1.7 times), Italy (+1.6%), Belgium (+15.1%), Sweden (+24.8%), Pakistan (+54.8%). Herewith, the volume of imports to Moldova from Austria (-18.9%), Argentina (-74.8%), Belarus (-9.5%), Vietnam (-15.3%), Malaysia (- 21.2%). In the structure of imports for January-July 2022, the following groups of goods occupied significant shares: oil, oil products and related products (15.9%); gas and industrial products derived from gas (9.1%); electrical machinery and equipment and their parts (6.1%); motor vehicles (5.7%); yarn, fabrics, textiles and related products (3.8%), specialized machines and devices for specific industries (3.7%); medicinal and pharmaceutical products (3.2%); industrial machines and apparatus for general purposes; parts and spare parts for these machines (2.7%); vegetables and fruits (2.3%); cast iron and steel (2.2%), processed metal products (2.2%).// 15.09.2022 — InfoMarket