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Ukraine: banana and citrus imports up, apple and pear imports down
Ukraine’s imports of bananas have grown by 31.6% in 2016 compared with a year before and reached 192,000 tons valued at $133 mln (up by 7.7%), according to Interfax-Ukraine.
Ecuador (the share of 81.5% in Ukraine’s total imports in the value terms), Costa Rica (10.46%) and Colombia (4.74%) were the leading exporters of bananas to Ukraine.
In addition, Ukraine imported 292,000 tons of citrus fruits in 2016, up by 25.6% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the value of imports went down by 1.7% to $197 mln.
Imports were registered mainly from Turkey (60.2%), Egypt (7.63%) and Spain (6.36%) with re-exports totaling just 57 tons.
Ukraine also imported just 28,900 tons of apples, pears and quinces, a fall of almost 51% year-on-year. The value of those imports also fell by 49.4% and totaled just $12 mln.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian exports of apples, pears and quinces amounted to almost 15,000 tons, 2.7 times as high as in 2014. The value of exports almost tripled and totaled $3 mln. As a result, the Ukrainian trade deficit amounted to almost $9 mln.
Apple, pear and quince imports were registered mainly from Poland (86.67$), the Netherlands (6.46%), while the same products were exported mainly to Belarus (57.72%), Georgia (9.38%) and Lybia (8.04%).
Ukraine also imported almost 30,000 tons of apricots, peaches, plums, sweet and sour cherries in 2016 valued at $19.8 mln (+3.9%), a rise of 54% year-on-yar.
Ukrainian exports of stonefruits totaled just 1,900 tons, twice as high as a year before, and the value of those exports amounted to $871,000, a rise of 59.2%.
Imports were registered mainly from Greece (43.07%), Spain (30.45%) and Turkey (12.43%), while exports had Belarus (89.43%) and Moldova (8.28%) as the main destinations.