The Far Eastern Federal District increased its trade turnover with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region by more than 10% in 2023. This was announced by the acting head of the Federal Customs Service, Ruslan Davydov. RIA News.
“Our figure is 47 billion dollars. This is an increase of more than 10% compared to last year,” Davydov said.
According to him, Russia aimed to reach a trade turnover of $200 billion with China and exceeded this plan. He added that China is the leader in the total number of imported goods: 72 percent of imported products are imported from here.
Before that, it was known that Russia was in 2023. took a leading position With the growth rate of trade turnover between China’s partners. Director of the First Asia Department Ivan Zhelokhovtsev said that China’s trade dynamics with the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea have become noticeably “negative”. This has allowed Russia to rise to fourth place among Beijing’s foreign trade counterparties, the diplomat said.
Zhelohovtsev emphasized that now more than 90 percent of the agreements between the two countries are concluded in national currencies. Thus, trade turnover reached about 20 trillion rubles, or about 1.6 trillion yuan.
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