CIS Share in Russian Import 6%

CIS counties' share in Russian import collectively comprises about 6% (therein the Ukraine accounts for 55% of import). CIS counties' share in Russian import collectively comprises about 6% (therein the Ukraine accounts for 55% of import). This was communicated by the head of the customs cost department of the North-West Customs Administration (SZTU) Yelena Rumyanzeva at the “Customs Regulation in Foreign Trade” seminar. More than a half of import is foodstuffs (meat, fish, sugar, tobacco mainly). Almost a third of import is goods listed as groups number 84 and 85 (elaborate machine-building production).