Moldova in January-March 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, increased export volumes by 1.2% - up to $1 billion 075.2 million.
As InfoMarket was informed by the National Bureau of Statistics, at the same time, the export of domestic goods for 3 months of 2023 amounted to $735.7 million (68.4% of the total), decreasing by 15.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. Herewith, the re-export of foreign goods in January-March 2023 amounted to $339.5 million (31.6% of the total), which is 1.7 times more than in the same period in 2022. Meanwhile, the re-export of goods after processing (clothing, shoes, shoe parts, chairs, electrical wiring and cables, other products for the automotive industry, shelled nuts, chairs and other furniture, suitcases, textile products, toys, etc.) amounted to 12.8% of total exports, and the classical 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) - 18.8%. According to the NBS, for the export of goods abroad in the specified period, road transport was most often used - 80.8% of the total, followed by sea transport - 13.9%, railway - 3.4%, air - 1.2%, fixed transport installations (0.6%). In general, Moldovan exports to the EU countries in January-March 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, decreased by 6.1% - to $670.5 million, to the CIS countries - increased by 2.6 times - to $266 .3 million, and to other countries - decreased by 43.7% - to $ 138.4 million. The share of EU countries in the total volume of Moldovan exports over the specified period decreased from 67.18% to 62.36%, the share of CIS countries increased from 9.65% to 24.76%, while the share of non-EU and CIS countries decreased from 23.16% to 12.88%. According to the NBS, the main destination countries for Moldovan exports in the reporting period were: Romania (33% of total Moldovan exports), Ukraine (16.1%), Italy (6%), Germany (5.6%), Russia (4.3 %), Turkey (3.7%), Czech Republic (3.6%), Poland (2.7%), Belarus (2.5%), Spain (2%), Cyprus (1.7%), USA (1.4%), Hungary, France, Bulgaria (1.3% each), Kazakhstan (1.2%), Switzerland, Greece, Great Britain (1.1% each), Lebanon and the Netherlands (0.9% each) ). At the same time for 3 months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, Moldova increased exports to Ukraine (by 6.9 times, mainly due to an increase in the supply (re-export) of petroleum products), to Romania (+5.4%), the Czech Republic ( 1.7 times), Belarus (1.9 times), Kazakhstan (7 times due to an increase in the supply of apples, grapes, medicines), Cyprus (2.1 times), Spain (1.8 times times), the United States (+54.7%), the UAE (by 6.6 times, mainly due to the re-export of cars and the supply of apples, plums, domestic ice cream), Lithuania (2.1 times, due to an increase in the supply of sunflower seeds and flax), Kyrgyzstan (by 7 times, due to an increase in the supply of paints and varnishes, apples, grapes, medicines), Morocco (by 1786.9 times, due to large supplies of cake and solid residues from sunflower seeds), France (+12.7%), Georgia (+42.8%), Israel (by 1.7 times), Lebanon (+13%), Hungary (+8.2%), Armenia (by 10.2 times, against the backdrop of growth re-export of machinery and medicines), Latvia (by 1.7 times), Saudi Arabia (+39.2%), Slovakia (+28.6%). Herewith, during this period, Moldova reduced exports to Turkey (-67.4%), Italy (-45.5%), Bulgaria (-71.5%), Switzerland (-65.1%), Great Britain ( -49%), Russia (-19%), Greece (-24.9%), Germany (-5.5%), Netherlands (-20.8%), Austria (-43.3%), Iraq ( -55.4%), Belgium (-27%), South Korea (-92%), Poland (-3.5%), North Macedonia (-52.1%), Egypt (-25.9%). In the structure of Moldovan exports for January-March 2023, the following groups of goods had the most significant shares: electrical machines and apparatus and their parts (14.8%); oil, oil products and related products (11.9%); cereals and preparations based on them (11.1%); vegetables and fruits (8.5%); vegetable fats and oils (7.8%); clothing and accessories (6.7%); alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (4.7%); oilseeds and fruits (4.5%); furniture and its parts (3.6%); non-metallic mineral products (2.9%), motor vehicles (2.2%); yarn, fabrics, textiles and related products (2%). // 17.05.2023 — InfoMarket
