UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2012. According to Tyumen Customs’s statistics, the foreign trade turnover in the customs area exceeded $504m in the first quarter of 2012. 94.4% of all the transactions involved the countries of the far abroad, and 5.6% involved the CIS member states. Imports reached 18.8% of total foreign trade turnover, while exports came to 81.2%, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports.

Tyumen Customs area’s top foreign trader partners were Turkey (its share in the total foreign trade volume came to 23.2%), Poland (16.2%), Finland (16.2%), the Netherlands (6.5%), Canada (6.3%), Hungary (5.7%), Germany (5.5%), Ukraine (4.4%), and Italy (3.2%).

The export transactions totaled to $409.6m, with 94.3% of this sum coming from transactions with the countries of the far abroad and 5.7% of this sum stemming from doing business with the CIS member states. The value of export transactions rose by 7.3% in the first quarter of 2012 on the first quarter of 2011 due to a 6.9% increase in the volume of shipments to the far abroad and a 14.1% increase in the volume of shipments to the CIS.

The better part of exports was delivered to Turkey (28.6%), Poland (19.9%), Finland (19.6%), the Netherlands (7.6%), Hungary (6.8%), Ukraine (4.4%), Germany (2.8%), Slovakia (2.7%), and Lithuania (2.5%).