TRADE GROWS BY 11.6% IN ARMENIA IN FIRST HALF OF 2007 ON SAME PERIOD OF LAST YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Aug 08 2007

YEREVAN, AUGUST 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Trade turnover amounted to 583 bln
587.7 mln drams (over 1 bln 636 mln USD) in current prices in Armenia
in January-June 2007, growing by 11.6%, in comparable prices, on the
same period of 2006.

According to the RA National Statistical Service, retail trade made
364 bln 570.5 mln drams in current prices in the first half of 2007,
growing by 11.4% in comparable prices on the index of the same period
of 2006.

Services amounted to 244 bln 812.7 mln drams in current prices in
January-June 2007, increasing by 18.5% in comparable prices on the
same period of last year.