KYIV. Feb 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The volume of industrial goods and services sold in Ukraine in 2016 amounted to UAH 1.766 trillion, which is 18% more than in 2015 (UAH 1.496 trillion), in particular exports stood at UAH 466.6 billion (UAH 418.8 billion), the State Statistics Service has said.
According to the service, in the total sales the share of food, beverages and tobacco products was 21.6%, that of supply of electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air 21.5%, metallurgical production and production of finished metal goods 17.1%, mining and quarrying 13%.
In December 2016 compared to December 2015 the volume of mining and processing industry sales increased by 24.4%, in particular mining and quarrying by 48.6%, processing industry by 20.6%.
