Moldova in January-August 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, increased exports by 63.6% - up to $2 billion 959.1 million.
As InfoMarket was informed by the National Bureau of Statistics, at the same time, the export of domestic goods for 8 months in 2022 amounted to $2 billion 107.9 million (71.2% of the total), an increase of 57.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. At the same time, the re-export of goods in January-August this year amounted to $851.2 million (28.8% of the total), which is 82.1% more than in the same period in 2021. Herewith, the re-export of goods after processing (clothing, footwear, shoe parts, chairs, electrical wiring and cable, other products for the automotive industry, shelled nuts, chairs and other furniture, suitcases, textile products, toys, etc.) accounted for 11.7% of total exports, while the classic re-export of foreign goods (gasoline, diesel fuel, vehicles, nuts, medicines, sunflower oil, sunflower seeds, cigarettes, wine distillates, whiskey, gin, vodka, liqueurs, beer, fabrics, knitwear, essential oils, perfumes and cosmetics, travel and sports bags, backpacks, wrist and other watches, corn) - 17.1%. According to the NBS, for the export of goods abroad in the specified period, road transport was most often used - 74.5% of the total volume, followed by sea transport - 15.4%, railway - 9%, air - 0.8%, fixed transport installations (0.3%). In general, Moldovan exports to the EU countries in January-August 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, increased by 55.4% - up to $ 1 billion 759.2 million, to the CIS countries - increased by 2.2 times - up to $622.5 million, and to other countries - increased by 46.5% - up to $577.4 million. The share of EU countries in the total volume of Moldovan exports for the specified period decreased from 62.59% to CIS - increased from 15.62% to 21.04%, while the share of non-EU and CIS countries decreased from 21.79% to 19.51%. According to the NBS, the main destination countries for Moldovan exports in the reporting period were: Romania (28.3% of total Moldovan exports), Ukraine (13.9%), Turkey (8.7%), Italy (8.2%), Germany (5.5%), Russia (5%), Bulgaria (4.2%), Poland (2.8%), Czech Republic (2.2%), Switzerland (2%), Iran (1.8 %), the Netherlands (1.7%), the UK (1.6%), Belarus (1.5%), Hungary (1.2%), France and the USA (0.9% each), Spain and Greece ( 0.8% each), Lebanon, Portugal and Austria (0.5% each). Meanwhile for 8 months of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, Moldova increased exports to Ukraine (by 7.3 times), to Romania (by 1.7 times), Italy (by 1.7 times), Bulgaria (by 4 .4 times), Turkey (+58.1%), Iran (2910.1 times), the Netherlands (2.2 times), Poland (+23.4%), Switzerland (+31.1%), Czech Republic (+21.1%), Hungary (+43.8%), USA (1.6 times), Great Britain (+21.3%), Cyprus (2.8 times), France (+29.9%), Greece (+25.5%), Spain (+23.3%), Serbia (1.7 times), Lithuania (2 times), Canada (1.9 times), Egypt ( 2.2 times), Belarus (+9.6%), Saudi Arabia (2.2 times), Jordan (4.6 times), Iraq (+59.6%), Croatia (3.6 times), Kazakhstan (+21.6%), Austria (+12.9%) Thus, over the specified period, Moldova reduced exports to Russia (-13.2%), the UAE (-81%), (-4.4%), Indonesia (-90.8%), Israel (-34.2%), China (-33.7%), Malaysia (-94.7%), Georgia (-18.2%), Belgium (-13.7%), Libya (-97.7%), Bangladesh (-96.4%), Portugal (-8.1%), Finland (-82%). In the structure of exports for January-August 2022, the following groups of goods accounted for the most significant shares: grains and preparations based on them (13%); electrical machines and apparatus and their parts (12%); oil, oil products and related products (10.9%); oilseeds and fruits (10%); vegetable fats and oils (9.5%); vegetables and fruits (7.9%); clothing and accessories (6.7%); alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (3.6%); furniture and its parts (3.3%); motor vehicles (2.1%), yarn, fabrics, textiles and related products (2%).// 17.10.2022 — InfoMarket
