Foreign trade turnover via the Baltic Customs made some $4.6 bn during the first two months of 2019.
The number of cargo declarations issued made 49.2 thousand. This number includes come 44.8 thousand of import declarations and almost 4.4 thousand of export declarations.
In terms of tonnage, circa 2.2 mn tons of cargo was declared via the Baltic Customs, up 5% year-on-year. Import traffic increased by 6.3% up to some 1.6 mn tons, export was up 1.8% to 603.1 mn tons.
A significant share in the import volume is fruit accounting for 31.5%. Other top import commodities are polymer materials, organic chemicals, ferrous metals and vehicles.
The top export commodities are timber and woodwork (37.7%), ferrous metals, paper and board, inorganic chemical products, and pulp.
The major countries of origin for import cargo in the Baltic Customs region in January-February 2019 were China, Ecuador, Morocco, Germany, and South Korea.
The top countries of destination for export via the Baltic Customs were Turkey (its share made 23.8%), China and Sweden.