Foreign trade turnover via the Baltic Customs made $13.9 bn in January-April 2021, up 26.1% year-on-year.
During the first four months of the year, the number of cargo declarations issued made 117.2 thousand (+5.1%) including 10.2.9 thousand of import declarations (+3.5%) and 7.2 thousand of export declarations (+2.8%).
In terms of tonnage, over 10.6 mn tons of cargo was declared via the Baltic Customs, up 24.8% year-on-year. Import traffic was up 0.2% to 3.5 thousand tons, while export grew by 42.1% up to 7.1 mn tons.
A significant share in the import volume was fruit accounting for 23%. Other top import commodities were polymer materials, inorganic chemical products, equipment, and ferrous metals.
The top export commodities were ore, stag and ash (35.9%), fertilizers, timber and woodwork, sal,t sulphur, soil and stones, and ferrous metals.
The major countries of origin for import cargo in the Baltic Customs region in January-April 2021 were China, Ecuador, Germany, India, and Brazil.
The top countries of destination for export via the Baltic Customs were China (its share made 39.6%), Brazil and the USA.