Macedonia’s Jan-July Trade Gap Narrows 25.2% Y/Y to $1.31 Bln - Table

Macedonia’s exports fell by 42% on the year to $1.45 billion through July, while imports decreased by 34.7% to $2.77 billion, the statistics office said in a statement.

Macedonia’s trade balance (in millions of U.S. dollars):

The country of more than two million people exported mainly ferro-nickel, iron, steel products and clothes through July. It imported mostly crude oil, electricity, and motor vehicles.

Macedonia's biggest foreign markets are European Union member states (56.5%) and the Western Balkans (36.8%), while most of its imports originate in the EU (52.3%) and developing countries (26.5%). Macedonia’s main trading partners through July were Germany, Serbia, Greece, Italy and Russia with a combined share of 47.5% of the overall trade volume.

($=0.6893 euro)