The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) this week increased its net sale of foreign currency on the interbank market to $949.9m from $532.1m the previous week, according to the regulator’s data. According to them, the volume of currency purchases by the central bank remains paltry at $0.27m, while its sales rose to $950.2m.
Over the week, the official hryvnia exchange rate weakened to a record 41.4912 UAH/$1 from 41.0107 UAH/$1.
Since the beginning of 2024, the dollar at the official exchange rate has become more expensive by 9.2%, or by UAH 3.49, and since the transition of the National Bank on October 3, 2023 to the regime of managed flexibility – by 13.4%, or by UAH 4.93.
On the cash market, the hryvnia weakened by about 70 cents during the week. – To 41.95 UAH/$1.
According to the data that the NBU managed to publish during this period, from Monday to Thursday the negative balance between the volume of currency purchases and sales by households increased from $36.5 million to $52.9 million, following the weakening of the hryvnia.
Ukraine’s international reserves fell by $1.14 billion to $37.89 billion in June, according to the NBU’s preliminary estimates, while the National Bank’s net interventions totaled $2.99 billion, down from $3.07 billion in May.
The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January 2024 decreased by 11.7% compared to the same month in 2023 – to $1.678 billion from $1.9 billion, the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) said on Friday. According to its data, exports of goods from Ukraine in January 2024 compared to January 2023 increased by 8.2% to $3.4 billion, while imports increased by 0.7% to $5.078 billion.
The State Statistics Committee specified that in January-2024 compared to December-2023 seasonally adjusted exports increased by 7.4% to $3.47 billion, while imports remained virtually unchanged at $5.536 billion.
The seasonally adjusted foreign trade balance in January-2024 was negative at $2.066 billion, while December-2023 also recorded a negative balance of $2.304 billion.
The coefficient of export coverage of imports in January 2024 amounted to 0.67 (in January 2023 – 0.62).
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Ukraine’s negative balance of foreign trade in goods in January-July 2023 tripled to $13.879 billion from $4.315 billion in the same period of 2022, the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) reported on Thursday.
According to its data, exports of goods from Ukraine for the period under review decreased by 14.7% to $21.795 billion compared to January-July 2022, while imports increased by 19.4% to $35.673 billion.
The State Statistics Service clarified that in July-2023, compared to June-2023, seasonally adjusted exports decreased by 11.7% to $2.671 billion, while imports increased by 1.7% to $5.132 billion.
The seasonally adjusted foreign trade balance in July 2023 was negative and amounted to $2.461 billion, while in the previous month it was also negative – $2.018 billion.
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Export of goods from Ukraine in August increased by 13.9% compared to July to $3.363 billion, while imports decreased by 2.3% to $4.416 billion, the Ministry of Economy reported on Friday.
According to him, as a result, the negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods last month decreased to $1.053 billion from $1.569 billion in July and $1.549 billion in June.
“The growth in exports is associated with the partial unblocking of the ports of Greater Odessa. This made it possible to significantly increase the volume of exports of Ukrainian goods. As a result, transportation by sea increased by 85% and amounted to almost 2.9 million tons,” the Ministry of Economy noted.
It indicated that in physical terms, in August 2022, the volume of Ukrainian exports increased by 25%, to 7.296 million tons, while imports decreased by 1%, to 1.961 million tons.
According to the Ministry of Economy, Ukraine exported more than 3 million tons of goods by rail, and 1.36 million tons by road.
At the same time, exporters receive the largest revenue from goods exported by road – $1.48 billion, sea cargo cost $995 million, and rail cargo – $788 million.
“Ukraine relies on the export model of economic growth. Before the full-scale war, our exports amounted to 35% of GDP. The goal of the Government and the Ministry of Economy is to raise it to 50%. 75% of exports should be finished goods and services,” the words of the First Vice -Prime Minister – Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko.
The leaders in terms of export value in August were, in particular, sunflower oil – $443 million and corn – $347 million, whose export volumes increased by 30%, to 366 thousand tons and by 31%, to 1.5 million tons, respectively, while export of sunflower seeds amounted to $71 million.
In addition, the list of leaders includes rapeseed – $305 million, including exported 665 thousand tons of this crop of the new crop, and wheat – $213 million, the export of which in August increased 2.3 times compared to July, to 880 thousand tons.
Last month, soybean exports jumped by 30% to 148,000 tons, and in monetary terms to $62 million, while revenue from electricity exports doubled to $73 million, which was the result of the successful integration of the Ukrainian energy sector into ENTSO-E, an energy system of the European Union.
“It is important that confectionery processing products demonstrate a stable upward trend: bakery +19.4%, sugar +9.1%, chocolate +25%,” the Ministry of Economy added, without specifying specific indicators.
At the same time, ore exports fell to 1.4 million tons, and in monetary terms – to $172 million, cable products – by 9.8%, to $89 million, poultry meat – to $67 million.
The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods in January-April 2021 increased by 47.3% compared to January-April 2020, to $ 1.299 billion from $ 882 million, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to its data, the export of goods from Ukraine for the specified period increased by 18.8% compared to the same period in 2020, to $ 19.094 billion, imports – by 20.3%, to $ 20.393 billion.
The State Statistics Service clarified that in April compared to March 2021, the seasonally adjusted export volume increased by 2.9%, to $ 5.274 billion, while imports decreased by 8.5%, to $ 5.606 billion.
The seasonally adjusted foreign trade balance in April 2021 was also negative and amounted to $ 359 million, which is better than the previous month ($571 million).
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports for the four months of the current year was 0.94 (for the four months of 2020 – some 0.95).
The State Statistics Service specified that foreign trade operations were carried out with partners from 216 countries of the world.
