Turkmenistan increased its exports to Uzbekistan by more than 80% in the period from January to August 2024 compared to the same period last year, the Statistics Agency under the President of Uzbekistan reports.

The trade turnover between the two countries for the specified period amounted to 805.4 million US dollars, which is 55.7% or 288.4 million dollars more compared to the same period last year.

Turkmenistan’s exports to Uzbekistan in the first eight months of this year increased by 82%, reaching 727.1 million dollars.

At the same time, the total value of goods and services imported from Uzbekistan to Turkmenistan amounted to 78.3 million dollars. For comparison, this figure in the same period last year was 118.4 million dollars.

In addition, this year Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover exceeded 42 billion 703 million dollars, of which 25 billion 359 million was import and 17 billion 344 million was export.