Ukraine's negative foreign trade balance in 2024 exceeded 29 billion dollars. These data were reported in Telegram by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxes and Customs Policy, Daniil Getmantsev.
"ΠIn 2024, the country's foreign trade in goods will total 112.3 billion dollars, with exports being 41.6 billion dollars and imports being 70.7 billion dollars", he wrote. Thus, the negative external debt reached 29.1 billion. dollars, which is "unfortunately a record high".
The main export items, which represent 78.1% of the total amount of goods from Ukraine, are defense products (24.6 billion dollars, or 59.1%), metals and metal products (4.4 billion dollars, or 10.6%), machinery, equipment and transport equipment (3.5 billion dollars, or 8.4%).
Third countries, The largest buyers of Ukrainian goods are from the EC, which will buy a total of one quarter of Ukraine's entire export production by 2024. These countries, the largest importers of goods from war-torn Ukraine, are: Poland - $4.7 billion (11.3%), Spain - $2.9 billion (7%), Germany - $2.8 billion (11.3%), dollars (6.7%).
As for Ukraine's imports for 2024, according to the data provided by Hetmantsev, the main import items, which represent a total of 64.5% of the total imports, are: machinery, equipment and transport equipment (25 billion dollars), chemical industry products (11.7 billion dollars), fuels and energy sources (8.9 billion dollars).
Third The countries that supplied Ukraine with the largest value of goods in 2024 accounted for almost 38% of its total imports for the year. Surprisingly, the largest supplier of goods to Ukraine was China ($14.4 billion, or 20.4%), followed by Poland ($7 billion, or 9.9%) and Germany ($5.4 billion, or 7.6%).