Foreign trade turnover via the Baltic Customs made $8.15 bn in January-March 2020, the Baltic Customs contributed 113.48 billion rubles ($1.5 bn) of customs dues and tariffs into the federal budget, up 7.5% year-on-year.
The number of cargo declarations issued made 84.8 thousand, including 75.9 thousand of import declarations and 8.9 thousand of export declarations.
In terms of tonnage, over 5.9 mn tons of cargo was declared via the Baltic Customs, up 67.7% year-on-year. Import traffic was slightly up by 0.8% down to some 2.6 mn tons, and export surged 3.6-fold up to 3.3 mn tons.
A significant share in the import volume is fruit accounting for 25.7%. Other top import commodities are polymer materials, ferrous metals, organic chemicals, and equipment.
The top export commodities were ore, stag and ash (25.6%), ferrous metals, timber and woodwork, fertilizers, salt, sulphur, soil and stones.
The major countries of origin for import cargo in the Baltic Customs region in January were China, Ecuador, Germany, India, and South Korea.
The top countries of destination for export via the Baltic Customs were China (its share made 31.8%), Turkey and Belgium.