The surplus of Ukraine’s foreign trade in services in January-March 2018 increased by 16% compared to 2016, to $1.461 billion (in January-March 2017 some $1.259 billion), the State Statistics Service has said. According to its data, exports of services in Q1 2018 rose by 5%, to $2.561 billion, imports fell by 6.8%, to $1.101 billion.
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports stood at 2.33 (in Q1 2017 at 2.07).
Foreign trade operations were conducted with partners from 211 countries.
