Negative trade balance with Russia may achieve 12 billion dollars
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16:55, — Economics
Trade balance with Russia is getting worse for Belarus in arithmetic progression. If the negative balance amounted to 1.026,008 billion dollars in January, it is 1.996,2 billion dollars following the result of January – February. As PRIME-TASS notes, minus in trade with Russia may reach 12 billion dollars at such rates.
To compare: this rate amounted to 791.9 million dollars in February 2007.
Common foreign trade balance amounted to minus 362.3 million dollars in January-February against minus 123.8 million in January. But it declined 1.8-fold against the same period in the previous year. The main reason for that is improving of positive balance in trade with non-CIS countries (from 70.4 million to 1.337,6 billion dollars against minus 2.618 billion in 2006.
As PRIME-TASS notes, balance of foreign trade in Belarus reached record minus 4.335 billion dollars against minus 2.618 billion in 2006.
