Georgia increased its passenger car exports to Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. newspaper reports “Kommersant” With reference to Georgia customs statistics.
Notably, Russia bought 978 cars worth $13.5 million in January-February versus 209 cars in 2022.
Georgia itself does not manufacture cars, but the country actively imports them. Thus, in January-February 2023, 8.2 thousand cars worth $97 million were imported from the United States and 1.3 thousand cars ($29.2 million) from Germany.
According to Avtostat, about 9.8 thousand cars under the age of three were sold in Russia during the indicated period, which were bought through parallel imports, but these were mostly cars from China.
Overall, re-exports of cars in January and February reached a ten-year high, with 13.5 thousand cars worth $236.8 million, according to the Georgian state statistical agency. At the same time, in 2019, the republic re-exported 59 cars for the whole year. 9.7 thousand cars worth $.8 million.
Previously reportedIran is considering the possibility of joint production of cars with Russia.