OREANDA-NEWS. June 14, 2013. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the export-to- import ratio was 44.7% within the first 4 months of the year against 42.1% in the same period of 2012.

An amount of Moldova’s export made up USD 773.6 million, 12.7% up as compared with January-April, 2012. An amount of import increased 6% to USD 1 billion 729.2 million. According to NBS, re-export of goods was USD 242.2 million and made up 68.7% of the total export. As compared with the same period of 2012, it decreased 17.4%.

Domestic goods were exported at a sum USD 531.4 million, which was 68.7% of the total export, 35.2% more than in the same period of 2012. Export grew 13.8% to USD 317.3 million to CIS states and 3.8% to USD 349.4 million to the EU. The share of CIS states in the total amount of export from Moldova increased from 40.6% to 41%, whereas the share of the EU decreased from 49% to 45.2%. In January -April, 2013 Moldova imported 1.5% less goods from the CIS at a sum of USD 564.1 million.

Import from EU grew 11.1% to USD 740.4 million. The share of CIS states in the total volume of import of Moldova decreased from 35.1% to 32.6% in the reporting period, whereas the portion of EU ones increased from 40.9% to 42.8%. The biggest trade balance deficit Moldova displayed with China in January-April, 2013 which made up USD 146.8 million (23.8% up as compared with the same period of 2012).

Then followed: Ukraine – USD 132.5 million (1.3% up), Germany - USD 88.2 million (18.6% down), Russia – USD 78.7 million (38.4% down), Romania – USD 78.5 million (46.1% up), Turkey - USD 66.6 million (37.9% down), Italy - USD 43.9 million (2.7 times up), Austria – USD 42.1 million (55% up), Belarus – USD 34.7 million (12.8% down), France - USD 26.4 million (22.2% up).