OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2013. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the export-to- import ratio was 47.8% in the first 2 months of the year against 42% in the like period of 2012. An amount of Moldovan export made up USD 360.9 million, 18.2% up as compared with the same period of 2012, an amount of imports increasing 3.7% to USD 755 million.

According to NBS, re-export of goods was USD 107.2 million, 29.7% of the total export from Moldova. As compared with January-February, 2012 re-export of commodities decreased 20.1%. Domestic goods were exported at a sum of USD 253.7 million in the reporting period, which was 70.3% of the total export and 48.3% more than in the same period of 2011. Export grew 18.7% to USD 142.7 million to CIS states and increased 14% to USD 173.1 million to EU.

The share of CIS states in the total amount of export from Moldova increased 39.4% to 39.5%, in January-February, 2013, whereas the share of EU ones decreased 49.7% to 48%. In the reporting period Moldova imported 10.4% less goods from CIS, at a sum of USD 270.4 mln. Import from EU grew 11.4% to USD 298.7 million. The share of CIS states in the total volume of Moldovan import decreased from 41.5% to 35.8% in the reporting period, whereas the share of EU ones increased 36.8% to 39.6%.

The biggest trade balance deficit Moldova displayed with China in January-February, 2013, which made up USD 71.4 million, 39.7% up as compared with the same period of 2012. Then followed: Russia - USD 64.6 million (39.5% down), Ukraine - USD 54 million (0.2% up), Romania - USD 41.6 million (3.1 times up), Turkey - USD 36.5 million (-18.9% down), Germany - USD 28.7 million (42.2% down), Austria – USD 17.5 million (2.1 times), Hungary– USD 10.2 million (17.4% up), Belarus – USD 8,.2 million (63.2% down).