AKIPRESS.COM - Since the beginning of the year, the volume of precious metal exports has exceeded $6.6 billion dollars, which is 3.5% less than in the same period last year, the country's statistics agency reported.

In the structure of goods imports, engineering products are the leaders - $11.21 billion dollars (-4.2%). Export of cars and components reached $2.68 billion (-23.8%), electrical products - $1.65 billion (+22.2%), power generators - $917.8 million dollars (+29.9%), communications equipment - $866 million (+16.1%).

The second place is held by industrial goods - $4.96 billion (-3.2%). Imports of cast iron and steel amounted to $2.19 billion  (+5.6%), wood products - $327.8 million (+7%) and non-ferrous metals - $312.3 million (+11.4%).

The volume of fuel and lubricant supplies more than doubled, reaching $3.26 billion. Gas imports from Russia and Turkmenistan increased 2.4 times and amounted to $1.36 million. Expenditures on oil and oil products reached $1.66 billion (+33.3% year-on-year).