BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

19/07/2007

Turkmenistan and Belarus increase trade turnover fourteen-fold, in 5 months

In January-May 2007, the trade turnover between Belarus and Turkmenistan has made up US$ 56.8 million, the 14-fold growth with exports up 15 times, REGNUM Information Agency reports referring to the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.

According to the agency, the significant increase of turnover has been achieved due to implementation of contracts between PO "Minskiy Traktorniy Zavod" (tractor manufacturing works) and "Turkmenobakhyzmat" Association for the delivery of 1000 Belarus-1221, 1000 Belarus-80X tractors and spare parts to them at the total value US$ 51.8 million and 1000 ploughs manufactured by RUP MZSh totaling US$ 1.9 million.

As it was reported earlier, in January-February 2007 Belarus increased its exports to Turkmenistan 17 times in comparison with the same period last year.

Source:

http://www.turkmenistan.ru/?page_id=3&lang_id=en&elem_id=10608&type=event&sort=date_desc