Continued Deterioration in Exports

In September the Belarusian exports of goods and services continued its decrease, fallen by 2% to $2.670 billion by August.

In August it made up 8.5%. Foreign trading was less in January and February. The surplus continued falling, amounted to $8.9 million dollars against $120 million in August, tut.by reports referring to the National Bank.

For the first nine months exports of goods and services fell by 24.6% to $25.130 billion, imports decreased by 26.8% to $23.946 billion. The balance was positive, $1.185 billion, which is almost twice more than in the corresponding period of 2014.

Traditionally, trade in goods made a negative balance — minus $509.9 million, it's 41.2% less than in January-September 2014.

In January-August export of goods fell by 26.6% to $20.141 billion, while imports increased by 27% to $20.651 billion.

Services compensated negative surplus in trade in goods. Their export made up $5 billion - it is 15.1% less than of the same period last year. Imports dropped at once by 25.1% and equaled to $3.3 billion. Balance of foreign trade in services was positive — $1.695 billion.