The foreign trade turnover within Nizhniy Tagil Customs area amounted to $1.2bn in the five months of 2011.

About 85.8% of the total goods turnover came from or went to the countries of the far abroad, whereas 14.2% of goods came from or went to the CIS member states.

In January-May 2011, the United States, the Netherlands, and Ukraine made up for the most of the foreign trade volume within Nizhniy Tagil Customs area: their shares in the total turnover volume came to 16.8%, 9.9%, and 9.6%, respectively. The shares of the Czech Republic, Germany, India, the Republic of Korea, Italy, China, Algeria, Vietnam, Great Britain, and Denmark reached 8.1%, 6.5%, 6%, 5.1%, 4.5%, 3.4%, 3.3%, 2.9%, 2.9%, and 2.8%, respectively.