The deficit of Ukraine’s balance of foreign trade in 2019 totaled $3.63 billion, which is 41.5% less than in 2018 ($6.21 billion) and this is linked to the sharp improvement of trade in services with Russia, the State Statistics Service has reported. Last year, exports of goods and services increased 11.2% to $63.68 billion, while imports – only 6%, to $67.31 billion.
The main improvement was thanks to an increase in the surplus in trade in services by 63.4% to $8.71 billion: their exports jumped by 30.9%, to $15.24 billion, while imports by only 3.5%, to $6.53 billion
At the same time, in particular, the export of Russian services grew at once by 85.3% to $6.18 billion, while their imports from Russia – only by 4.4%, to $0.29 billion. This is probably due to a payment of $2.9 billion, which Gazprom transferred to Naftogaz at the end of the year as part of the execution of the award of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in a dispute between the companies on their transit contract.
At the same time, last year in trade in goods, imports grew faster than exports. In general, over the year, deliveries to Ukraine increased 6.3%, to $60.78 billion, while supplies from Ukraine – 5.8%, to $50.06 billion. As a result, the deficit of trade in goods increased 8.8%, to $10.72 billion.
According to the State Statistics Service, last year there were negative trends in trade with the EU: export growth slowed to 3.9% from 14.3% a year earlier, while imports – to 7.5% from 12.7%, resulting in a deficit in trade with the EU, which expanded by 31.5%, to $4.56 billion.
The export of Ukrainian goods to the EU in 2019, in particular, increased 3%, to $ 20.75 billion, while the import of European goods to Ukraine grew 7.7%, to $24.99 billion.
As reported, the deficit of Ukraine’s balance of foreign trade in 2018 amounted to $5.83 billion, which is 2.3 times worse than in 2017. In 2018, exports of goods and services grew by 8.6%, imports – by 14.3%.
Ukrainian foreign trade in services by countries in I half-year 2019 (import)
Ukrainian foreign trade in services by countries in I half-year 2019 (export)
The surplus of Ukraine’s foreign trade in services in January-June 2019 increased by 13.3% compared with January-June 2018, to $2.937 billion ($2.593 billion in H1 2018), the State Statistics Service has reported. Exports of services in January-June 2019 grew by 7.6%, to $5.897 billion, while imports of services rose by 2.5%, to $2.96 billion.
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports was 1.99 in January-June 2019 (1.9 in H1 2018).
Foreign trade operations in the service sector were carried out with partners from 226 countries.
The surplus of Ukraine’s foreign trade in services in January-June 2019 increased by 13.3% compared with January-June 2018, to $2.937 billion ($2.593 billion in H1 2018), the State Statistics Service has reported. Exports of services in January-June 2019 grew by 7.6%, to $5.897 billion, while imports of services rose by 2.5%, to $2.96 billion.
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports was 1.99 in January-June 2019 (1.9 in H1 2018).
Foreign trade operations in the service sector were carried out with partners from 226 countries.
The deficit of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January-June 2019 increased by 36.3% compared with January-June 2018, to $3.736 billion, the State Statistics Service has reported. According to its data, export of goods from Ukraine for the specified period grew by 5.2%, to $24.469 billion, while imports by 8.5%, to $28.205 billion.
The service said that in June 2019 the seasonally adjusted export volume decreased by 3.7% compared to May 2019, to $4.081 billion, while imports by 0.2%, to $5.248 billion.
The seasonally adjusted foreign trade balance in June was also negative and amounted to $1.167 billion, which is 14.4% more than in the previous month.
The service said that foreign trade operations were carried out with partners from 214 countries of the world.
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports amounted to 0.87.
