OREANDA-NEWS. December 21, 2010. 33 transactions were concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

Buyers from Switzerland concluded the transactions in the foreign currency for base oil, buyers from Denmark and Russia for polypropylene, buyers from Afghanistan – diesel fuel, buyers from the Virgin Islands – oil coke. All oil products are produced at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries. Chinese businessmen bought licorice extract, Turkish businessmen – knitted waste. The transactions concluded in the foreign currency totalled over USD 34.131 million.

The transactions in deposit manats were concluded for refined cottonseed oil, confectionery, jacquard terry towels, gray cloth and greige yarn, raw fatty acids, cotton flake, raw silk, washed goat wool and washed camel wool, delint, cotton spinning waste and greige yarn waste. The buyer countries: the United States, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan. The transactions concluded in deposit manats totalled over 9.903 million manats.

Turkmen businessmen bought fibre uluk and a Mercedes Benz-240 to the sum of 1.331 million manats.