Exports of economic agents from the Transnistrian region to the EU countries in 2023 amounted to 70.48% of the total volume, which is a record high.
The Moldovan government reported this, noting that there has not been such an indicator since the signing of the EU Association Agreement with Moldova. The Cabinet of Ministers pointed out that due to the constant efforts of the constitutional authorities to gradually include economic agents from the Transnistrian region of Moldova in the national legal field of activity, in 2023 there was a progressive dynamics of deepening of import-export operations with the EU countries. Thus, in 2023, the export of Transnistrian economic agents to the EU countries amounted to 70.48%, which is a record high since the signing of the Association Agreement with Moldova, having significantly increased compared to 2019, when the share of exports of Transnistrian companies to the EU countries amounted to only 49.9%. In 2023, import trade relations with the EU also improved, and its share in the total volume of imports to the Transnistrian region amounted to 55.99% against 31.8% in 2018. The main directions of Transnistrian economic agents’ exports to the EU traditionally remain Romania, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Bulgaria, etc. As the government notes, the war in Ukraine and the suspension by the Ukrainian authorities of the activity of all checkpoints on the central (Transnistrian) section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian state border contributed to the change of logistic chains and even greater reorientation of the region's trade activities to the EU markets, as well as to the strengthening of the connection with the right bank of the Nistru River. "Thus, the economic realities on the ground present an objective picture and are unfolding in their natural course, despite the attempts of some regional politicians to present the processes in different colors and dynamics," the government said in a statement. // 19.01.2024 - InfoMarket.
