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Negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January-October 2023 increased by 3 times

15 December , 2023  

The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January-October 2023 increased 3 times compared to the same period of 2022 – to $22.363 billion from $7.108 billion, the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) reported.

According to its data, exports of goods from Ukraine for the period compared to January-October 2022 decreased by 19% to $29.827 billion, while imports increased by 18.8% to $52.19 billion.

The State Statistics Committee specified that in October-2023 compared to September-2023, seasonally adjusted exports decreased by 4.8% to $2.475 billion, while imports decreased by 1.6% to $5.251 billion.

The seasonally adjusted foreign trade balance in October-2023, as in the previous month, was negative at $2.776 billion compared to $2.736 billion before.

The export-import coverage ratio in January-October 2023 was 0.57 (0.84 in January-October 2022).

State Statistics specified that foreign trade operations were conducted with partners from 228 countries. Earlier, the analytical center Experts Club presented an analysis of macroeconomics of Ukraine and the world. For more details on the situation in the Ukrainian and world economy, see the video on the YouTube channel “Experts Club” at the link:

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