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  • Armenia's Foreign Trade Grows 4.9% To $1314.2 Million In Jan-March 2

    ARMENIA'S FOREIGN TRADE GROWS 4.9% TO $1314.2 MILLION IN JAN-MARCH 2013

    YEREVAN, April 30. /ARKA/. Armenia's Jan-March 2013 foreign trade
    turnover amounts to $1314.2 million - 4.9% year-on-year growth.

    According to the information available on the National Statistical
    Service's official website, Armenia's exports totaled $341.7 million
    in Jan-March 2013 after growing 14.3%, compared with the same period
    a year earlier, and imports totaled $972.5 million - 2% year-on-year
    growth.

    As a result, negative balance of the country's foreign trade turnover
    amounted to $630.8 million.

    According to the preliminary statistical data, adverse balance of
    Armenia's foreign trade turnover in FOB prices (a shipping term which
    indicates that the supplier pays the shipping costs, and usually also
    the insurance costs, from the point of manufacture to a specified
    destination, at which point the buyer takes responsibility - ARKA)
    amounted to $481 million in Jan-March 2013.

    Mining industry's products ($97.6 million and 10.8% year-on-year
    growth), basic metals and articles made of them ($83.8 million,
    3.7% growth), food industry's final products ($69.3 million and 48.5%
    growth), precious and semiprecious stones, precious metals and articles
    made of them ($46.3 million, 24.3% growth) dominated the country's
    exports in Jan-March 2013.

    Mining industry's products ($251.3 million, 3.2% year-on-year decline),
    machinery and mechanisms (about $99.4 million and 16.4% decline),
    food industry's final products ($82.1 million, 38.1% growth), ground,
    air and water transportation means ($81.3 million, 10.2% decline)
    dominated Armenia's imports in Jan-March 2013. ($1 - AMD 410.98). -0-



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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