Minsk, estimated losses on exports to Russia in two months at $ 900 million – Kommersant

                             
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Enterprises Belarus in January-February this year, lost exports to Russia nearly 900 million dollars. This was the TV channel “Belarus 1″ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov. The Prime Minister reiterated the country’s intention to increase the delivery of their goods to other countries not to depend on exports to Russia.

In particular, the authorities have set a task to increase to $ 5 billion deliveries to North Africa, Latin America, China, India, Indonesia, leads the “Interfax” the words of Mr. Kobyakov. According to him, the government has identified 56 promising markets for Belarusian products.

Earlier, Andrei Kobyakov said that the need to reorient the export of the country, shifting the “center of gravity” of the Russian market. “The volume of Belarusian exports of goods and services, according to statistics, declined in January and February of this year by 22.7% compared to the same period last year. Because of the high concentration of exports, both goods and markets, increase external risks for the stable development of the national economy “, – he said.

Learn more about Moscow and Minsk discussed the removal of trade restrictions, see the article “b”, “Eurasian Union is no one country».