15 March 2004 11:56
RUSSIA`S TRADE SURPLUS AT $5.6 BILLION IN JANUARY
MOSCOW. March 12 (Interfax) - Russia's trade surplus, calculated by balance of payments method, contracted 0.3%
to $5.57 billion this past January 2004 from $5.585 billion in December of 2003.
The trade surplus was almost 12% greater in January than it was one year earlier, the Central Bank said on its
website.
Exports contracted 22% to $10.829 billion in January, imports 37%
to $5.259 billion. Nevertheless, exports were 13% greater than in
In December 2003, Russian exports worth $13.942 billion and imports worth $8.357 billion were at the absolute maximum
level for one month.
January of 2003 ($9.584 billion), imports 12% more ($4.692 billion).
Foreign trade this past January ($16.088 billion) was 28% less than in the preceding month ($22.299 billion). That
figure was 19% for the first month of 2003.
[Interfax] |
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