Belarus’ export to UK, China, Italy soars

        In January-April 2013 Belarus considerably increased export to the United Kingdom, China, and Italy. The relevant figures were released by the State Customs Committee of Belarus.
In January-April 2013 Belarus’ export to the UK tripled in comparison with the same period of last year to $267.8 million. Export to China rose by 91.5% to $266.8 million. Italy bought $384.9 million worth of Belarusian merchandise, 27.1% up.
        According to the customs statistics, as for Belarus’ trade with the CIS states, Belarus’ increased trade with Moldova, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia.
In January-April 2013 the overall merchandise trade totaled $26.5 billion.