Interfax
Nov. 3, 2004

Russia only country with surplus in trade with CIS countries

MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) – Russia is the only country that has a
surplus in trade with countries of the Commonwealth of Independent
States, says a report by the CIS’s Interstate Statistics Committee.

>From January to August, surplus in Russia’s trade with CIS countries
amounted to $6.64 billion. Russia exported $17.78 billion in
commodities to CIS countries from January to August and imported goods
worth $11.14 billion, the report says.

Ukraine had the largest foreign trade deficit of $4.135 billion in the
first eight months of 2004 (with exports amounting to $5.43 billion and
imports $9.56 billion). In Belarus, the deficit in trade with CIS
countries was $2.43 billion (exports – $4.55 billion and imports $6.99
billion); in Kazakhstan $1.17 billion (respectively, $2.67 billion and
$3.84 billion); in Tajikistan $494.8 million ($101.1 million and $595.9
million); in Azerbaijan $322.4 million ($415.3 million and $737.7
million); in Kyrgyzstan $183.7 million ($165.0 million and $348.7
million); in Georgia $157.6 million ($220.0 million and $377.6
million); in Moldova $153.7 million ($307.5 million and $461.2 million)
and in Armenia $110.8 million ($78.8 million and $189.6 million.)

No information about Uzbekistan’s and Turkmenistan’s foreign trade is
available to the Interstate Statistics Committee.