12-month exports reach $94 bln, up 23 pct
Posted by meb at June 3rd, 2007
Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) announced that the export figures of the first five months of the year rose by 25.82 percent as compared to that of the last year and reached 40,471,709,000 dollars. The annual export figures stood at a record high figure: 94 billion dollars.
TİM announced the export figures of May in Antalya. The announcement said that the export figures, which stood at 7,255,035,000 dollars in May 2006, rose by 26.26 percent this year and reached 9,160,562,000 dollars. 88.94 percent of the total exports in May were in manufacturing sector. The share of the agricultural sector and mining sector stood at 8.61 and 2.46 percent, respectively.
The share of the manufacturing sector in exports in May rose by 28.69 percent as compared to that of previous year and reached 8,147,329,000 dollars. 6.5 billion dollars of this amount was constituted of the industrial products’ export, which experienced 31.59 percent increase. Among the given industrial goods, the share of the exports of transportation vehicles and related industry products, ready-to-wear clothing and iron and steel products rose by 32.32, 18.89 and 63.1 percent and reached 1,920,000,000, 1,310,000,000 and 1,273,067,000 dollars, respectively.
Agricultural exports rose by 9.11 percent and stood at 788,300,000 dollars. The share of the vegetable products in export figures diminished by 1.71 percent and stood at 568,098,000 dollars. Especially the 40.36 percent reduction in the hazelnut exportation contributed to the downfall experienced. The sharpest rise in the exportation figures under this category was in fresh fruit and vegetables, which rose by 41.36 percent. While the hazelnut exportation fell down to 80,407,000 dollars, the export figures for fresh fruit and vegetables reached 124,864,000 dollars. The highest increase in the agricultural exports was in pulse, grain and oil seeds item, which stood at 193,250,000 dollars, despite the 6.1 percent decrease experienced as compared to the figures of the same month of the last year. While the exportation of animal products rose by 63.38 percent to 42,449,000 dollars, tree and forestry products’ rose by 49.98 percent and stood at 177,753,000 dollars. Mining exports of May rose by 11.69 percent and reached 224,934,000 dollars.
The exports in January-May period increased by 25.81 percent compared to the same term previous year to 40,471,709,000 dollars. Industry exports increased by 27.61 percent to 35,393,905,000 dollars while agricultural products’ and mining products’ exports rose by 11.86 and 28.28 percent and reached 4,154,811,000 and 922,992,000 dollars, respectively.
The export of transportation vehicles and related industry products, which ranked the first in the first five-month period, rose by 35.95 percent and stood at 8,224,100,000 dollars. Ready-to-wear products’ and iron and steel products’ exports increased by 14.77 and 47.91 percent and reached 6,224,540,000 and 4,615,646,000 dollars, respectively.
Annual exports rise by 23 percent
The export figures for the one-year period in between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007, rose by 23.37 percent and reached 94,077,152,000 dollars. The annual exports of industrial products, agricultural products and mining products increased by 25.51, 6.39 and 37.76 percent and stood at 81,588,335,000, 10,204,839,000 and 2,283,975,000 dollars, respectively.
The country-based assessment of the export figures reflected that the highest amount of exports was to Germany with 967 million dollars, followed by the exports to United Kingdom with 715 and to Italy with 656 million dollars. The figures of the five-month period revealed the value of exports to Germany, United Kingdom and Italy to be 4.5, 3.1 and 3 billion dollars, respectively.
source: The New Anatolian
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