Foreign trade turnover via the Baltic Customs made $18.9 mn during January-July of 2019.
The number of cargo declarations issued made some 191.4 thousand. This number includes 175.7 thousand of import declarations and 18.3 thousand of export declarations.
In terms of tonnage, about 9.1 mn tons of cargo was declared via the Baltic Customs, up 1.3% year-on-year. Import traffic increased by 0.5% up to some 6.2 mn tons, and export by 3% up to 2.9 mn tons.
A significant share in the import volume is fruit accounting for 26.6%. Other top import commodities are polymer materials, organic chemicals, ferrous metals and vehicles.
The top export commodities are ferrous metals (39.8%), timber and woodwork, paper and board, inorganic chemical products, and pulp.
The major countries of origin for import cargo in the Baltic Customs region in January-July 2019 were China, Ecuador, Germany, South Korea and India.
The top countries of destination for export via the Baltic Customs were Turkey (its share made 29%), China and Egypt.