Belarus hopes exports to Russia attain $22-23 bln by year-end, PM says

Minsk is hopeful that on the finish of the outgoing 12 months the quantity
of Belarusian exports to Russia will probably be about $22-23 billion,
Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko mentioned on Saturday,
Pattern studies
citing TASS.

“Because the outcomes of the ten months present, exports to the Russian
Federation amounted to $18 billion. That is a lot greater than in all
the earlier years. I offers you the common determine for our
exports in earlier years, it’s $12-13 billion per 12 months. Now we
have $18 [billion] over the ten months, and I feel, I hope, that
we may have about $22-23 billion by the top of the 12 months,” he mentioned
in a video launched on Saturday by the Belarusian authorities’s
press service.

Golovchenko identified that presently the export price was even
greater, as a number of engineering merchandise are being shipped on the
finish of the 12 months, so Belarus’ proportion in Russian imports is
rising. The Belarusian prime minister emphasised that financial
cooperation between Moscow and Minsk is being strengthened.

“Notably [if we] take note of the truth that the
Russian financial system is demonstrating fairly optimistic charges and is
efficiently dealing with sanctions, in addition to the Republic of
Belarus, in different phrases, each of us are efficiently coping,” he
mentioned.

In line with the prime minister, all preconditions present that
subsequent 12 months wouldn’t be worse than this one.

The Belarusian prime minister mentioned that the exports plans of
Belarus had already been dropped at life in 70 Russian areas.

“In my view, the export is greater than $100 million in 14
Russian areas,” he concluded.