Georgian external trade amounts to $9.19 billion in January-September 2019

The value of exports increased by 11.1 per cent and reached $2.72 billion, while imports decreased 3.3 per cent and amounted to $6.47 billion. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 15 Oct 2019 - 17:40, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgia’s external trade turnover increased to $9.19 billion (+0.5%) in January-September 2019, show preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).

The value of exports increased by 11.1 per cent and reached $2.72 billion, while imports decreased 3.3 per cent and amounted to $6.47 billion.

External merchandise trade tendencies of Georgia in January-September 2014-2019. Photo: Geostat.

The trade deficit of Georgia in January-September 2019 amounted to $3.76 billion which is 40.8 per cent of trade turnover.

In September 2019 the value of export was $302.6million, while imports amounted to $748.6 million.