OREANDA-NEWS. January 09, 2015. As the balance of payments of Moldova shows, in the reporting period they were 18.5% of Moldova’s total alcohol exports, NBM said to InfoMarket.

Poland was the major importer of Moldovan wine and cognac, increasing the import 4.4% to USD 6.62 million in the reporting period. Over the first 9 months of 2014 Moldova exported wine and cognacs at an amount of USD 4.95 million (-20.4%) to the Czech Republic; USD 2.91 million (-17.6%) to Romania; USD 2.08 million (+44.4%) to Germany; USD 1.88 million (+59.3%) to Lithuania and USD 1.73 million (+37.3%) to Slovakia.

As for non-CIS and non-EU countries, the greatest amounts of Moldova’s wine and cognacs were sold to the USA USD 11.44 million (-2.9%), Georgia - USD 5.77 million (-13.2%), China- USD 3.16 Million (+24.4%), Nigeria – USD 1.32 million (twice as much).