what else does Belarus buy from Italy?
Italy has been among the participants in the meeting of partners of Belarus for a number of years. Our country bought medicines, wine, coffee, clothes, shoes and pharmaceutical products from the earthly state.
Import of goods
According to Belstat, in 2021 trade between Belarus and Italy $941.9 millionof which imports of the Republic of Belarus – $786.0 million. In value terms, our country increased Italy’s reserves by 14.2% compared to 2020, but in the first half of 2022, imports increased to $237.8 million, or by 33.5%, compared to the rate of January-June 2021.
In 2021 important commodity items of Belarusian imports from Italy were:
- medicines packaged for retail sale ($27.7 million);
- machines and mechanical devices for special purposes ($18 million);
- spare parts and accessories for cars and tractors ($17.9 million);
- fittings for pipelines ($16.4 million);
- natural grape wines, including must ($15.8 million).
Imports Belarus and food industry: equipment for heat treatment of materials, tissue paper, clothes and shoes, yellow equipment, electric batteries, silk fabrics, vacuum cleaners, glasses, furniture.
It is worth noting food imports from the Italian Republic. In 2021 Belarus bought in the southern European state coffee, pasta, fruits, frozen beef, cheeses, chocolate, olive oil, pork, grapes (fresh or dried), tomatoes, vegetable and fruit juices.
There are exceptions regarding Belarusian imports and rather suspicious positions. For example, in 2021, $1.7 million was destroyed in Belarus for tobacco preparation or preparation equipment. The commodity item “Orthopedic devices for the treatment of fractures, prostheses” cost our country $1.4 million, including artificial teeth – $333.6 thousand.
For the import of mirrors (including rear-view mirrors), the Republic of Belarus lost 678 thousand US dollars, for the supply of used goods and food – 542.5 thousand US dollars, activated carbon – 193.6 thousand dollars. USA.
And what about exports?
In 2021 Belarus exports goods worth $155.9 million to Italy., an increase in supply compared to the value of the year (90.5 million US dollars) by more than 70%. According to the results of the first half of 2022, exports dipped by 23.1% (against January-June 2021) and amounted to $47.8 million.
According to Belstat, in 2021 specific positions of Belarusian exports to Italy were:
- pipes, tubes and reinforcement profiles made of ferrous metals ($19.2 million);
- unalloyed steel wire ($12.1 million);
- timber sawn longitudinally ($9.5 million);
- hot-rolled non-alloy steel bars ($9.2 million);
- plywood ($7.6 million).
In addition, Belarus produces fibers, linen fabrics, fuel wood, joinery, furniture and its parts, lumber, plastic containers, frozen fruits and vegetables in Italy.
For a number of years at the beginning of the month, domestic exports to Italy were included in the circle of potash products, animal information Belstat closed in 2021. It is known that in 2018, our country earned $23.2 million from the supply of potassium to the Italian Republic, in 2019 – $19 million, in 2020 – $17.8 million.
In 2022 a number of Belarusian goods were arrestedso export volumes can be expected to recover in Belarus in Italy. At the same time, business contacts between the countries continue. In October 2022, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade spent Meeting with the meeting of the Italian business.
During the event, issues of cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and Italy in the field of interchangeable products, the production of food from Belarusian raw materials using Italian technologies, investments in the restaurant business, and the implementation of projects in the oil and fat industry were discussed.
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