Imports to Moldova in January-March 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, increased by 13.1%, amounting to $2 billion 307 million.
As InfoMarket was informed by the National Bureau of Statistics, at the same time, traditionally, most goods were imported into the country by road - 72.7% of the total. Sea transport accounted for 7.9% of total imports, rail transport - 5.9%, air transport - 1.7%, self-propelled imports - 0.7%, postal items - 0.1%, and the share of fixed transport installations (gas pipelines, electric networks) - 11% of total imports. In particular, the volume of imports to Moldova of products from the EU countries in January-March 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, increased by 23.2% - up to $ 1 billion 113.9 million, from the CIS countries - decreased by 16.7% - to $524.9 million. Import of goods from other countries increased by 32.4% - up to $668.2 million. The share of EU countries in the total volume of Moldovan imports increased from 44.35% to 48.28%, the share of the CIS countries - decreased from 30.9% to 22.75%, while the share of other states - increased from 24.75% to 28.96%. In the TOP countries, which accounted for the largest volumes of Moldovan imports for 3 months in 2023, included: Romania (15.8% of the total), Ukraine (12.7%), China (9.9%), Turkey (8.2%), Russia (6.5%), Germany (6.3%), Italy (4.7%), Poland (3.2%), France (2.7%), Greece (2.6%), Hungary (2.4%), Bulgaria (2.1%), India (1.9%), Kazakhstan (1.8%), Czech Republic (1.4%), USA and Spain (1.3% each), Austria (1.1%), Netherlands ( 1%), Belarus, Japan and Slovakia (0.9% each), Great Britain (0.8%), Belgium (0.7%). An analysis of the evolution of imports by country in January-March 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, shows an increase in imports to Moldova from Ukraine (by 2.2 times), from Romania (+32.7%), Turkey (+ 41.8%), Greece (7.4 times due to significant supplies of natural gas and diesel fuel), China (+24.6%), Kazakhstan (10.2 times due to significant supplies of fuel oil), Bulgaria (in 1.8 times due to increased supplies of fuel oil, diesel fuel and jet fuel), India (by 1.8 times, due to significant supplies of diesel fuel), Israel (by 4.2 times, due to large supplies of diesel fuel and fuel oil), Slovakia (in 1.8 times), Japan (by 1.8 times, due to an increase in the supply of cars and tractors), Poland (+10.1%), Azerbaijan (2 times due to an increase in fuel oil supplies), France (+8.5%), Hungary (+9.5%), Germany (+3.1%), Austria (+21.4%), Czech Republic (+15.1%), Georgia (9.2 times due to significant supplies of fuel oil), Belgium (+33.8%), Ecuador (+56.2%), Vietnam (+36.2%), Portugal (+36.5%), Egypt (2.6 times), Great Britain ( +11.4%), Spain (+6%), Finland (+40.6%), Bangladesh (+53.5%), USA (+4.7%), Sweden (+18.3%), Latvia (+31.7%), Hong Kong (7.9 times). Meanwhile, volumes of imports to Moldova decreased from Russia (-66.7%), Belarus (-21.6%), Italy (-3.4%), Uzbekistan (-57.8%), South Korea (-20.4%), Pakistan (-40.5%), UAE (-63.7%). In the structure of imports for 3 months in 2023, the following groups of goods occupied significant shares: oil, oil products and related products (16.9%); gas and industrial products derived from gas (10.9%); electrical machinery and equipment and their parts (6.6%); motor vehicles (5.7%); medicinal and pharmaceutical products (3.5%); yarn, fabrics, textiles and related products (3.2%), mineral or chemical fertilizers (2.8%); vegetables and fruits (2.8%); specialized machines and devices for specific industries (2.3%); industrial machines and apparatus for general purposes; parts and spare parts for these machines (2.3%); cereals and products of their processing (2.2%); apparatus and equipment for telecommunications and for recording and reproducing sound and images (2.2%); seeds and oilseeds (2.2%); clothing and accessories (2.1%). // 17.05.2023 — InfoMarket
