Moldova in January-August 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, reduced export volume by 9.8% - to $2 billion 668 million.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that the export of domestic goods for 8 months in 2023 amounted to $1 billion 818.5 million (68.2% of the total), down by 13.7% compared to the same period of the previous year. At the same time, re-export of foreign goods (after their significant processing and classic re-export) in January-August 2023 amounted to $849.5 million (31.8% of the total volume), which is 0.2% less than the figure for the same period 2022. At the same time, 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 13.9% in total exports, and 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 products, essential oils, perfumes and cosmetics, travel and sports bags, backpacks, wrist and other watches, corn) – 17.9%. According to the NBS, motor transport was most often used to export goods abroad during this period - 81.6% of the total volume, followed by sea transport - 13.2%, railway - 3.1%, air - 1.1%, fixed transport installations (1%). In general, Moldovan exports to the EU countries in January-August 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, decreased by 4.3% - to $1 billion 682.9 million, to the CIS countries - increased by 4.7% - to $652 million, and to other countries - decreased by 42.3% - to $333.05 million. The share of EU countries in the total volume of Moldovan exports during the specified period increased from 59.45% to 63.08%, the share of CIS countries increased from 21.04% to 24.44%, and the share of countries outside the EU and CIS decreased from 19.51% to 12.48%. At the same time, the growth of Moldovan exports to the CIS was due to an increase in supplies of goods to Ukraine, compared to January-August 2022, by 7.7% - to $442.1 million. According to the NBS, the main destination countries for Moldovan exports in this period were years were: Romania (33.3% of total Moldovan exports), Ukraine (16.6%), Italy (6.8%), Germany (5.4%), Russia and the Czech Republic (3.8% each), Turkey (3.6%), Poland (2.9%), Belarus (2.2%), Turkey (3.6%), Poland (2.9%), Belarus (2.2%), Bulgaria and Spain (1.6 each), USA (1.3%), Hungary (1.2%), Kazakhstan, the Netherlands and France (1.1 each), Great Britain and Lebanon (1.0 each), Greece and Cyprus (0.9% each) and Switzerland (0.8%). At the same time, in 8 months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, Moldova increased exports to Romania (+6.2%), Czech Republic (+56.1%), Ukraine (+7.7%), Kazakhstan (3. 1 time), Spain (1.7 times), Belarus (+33.0%), Cyprus (1.9 times), Lebanon (1.7 times), Egypt (2.4 times), USA (+31.4%), UAE (3.3 times), Kyrgyzstan (6.4 times), Lithuania (+56.0%), Croatia (2.6 times), Indonesia (10.0 times) 4 times), Latvia (1.7 times). During this period Moldova reduced exports to Turkey (-62.8%), Bulgaria (-64.6%), Italy (-25.2%), Russia (-31.7%), Switzerland ( -64.9%), the Netherlands (-42.4%), the UK (-43%), Germany (-10%), Portugal (-82.9%), Poland (-4.9%), Hungary ( -10.7%), Belgium (-24.4%), Jordan (-86.1%), Austria (-21.4%), Iraq (-46.5%). In the structure of Moldovan exports for January-August 2023, the most significant shares were in the following groups of goods: electrical machines and apparatus and their parts (15.6%); oil, petroleum products and related products (11.8%); cereals and preparations based on them (9.4%); vegetables and fruits (7.8%); clothing and accessories (7.4%); vegetable fats and oils (6.4%); oilseeds and fruits (6.4%); alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (5%); furniture and its parts (3.6%); non-metallic mineral products (2.9%); yarn, fabrics, textiles and related products (2.1%); motor vehicles (1.8%). // 19.10.2023 - InfoMarket.
