Nizhniy Tagil Customs’ foreign trade turnover amounted to $1.7 billion in the first half of 2007, which exceeds the figures for January-June 2006 by 35.1%. $1.5 billion worth of goods, or 84.1% of all the goods exported, was sent to the countries of the far abroad, and $274.8 million worth of goods, or 15.9%, was exported to the CIS. The share of imported goods reached 10.6% ($183.6 million) in the total turnover volume, with the share of export coming to 89.4% ($1.5 billion), Ural Customs Administration reports.

$274.8 million worth of goods was sent to or imported from the CIS, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 22%, and $1.5 billion worth of goods was exported to or imported from the countries of the far abroad, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 37.9%. As regards the CIS, the increase can be explained by greater scale of export to the Ukraine and more goods being imported from Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. As for the other countries, more goods were exported to Algeria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, and the U.S. and more goods were imported from China, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the U.S. The Netherlands, with their $227.9 million worth of goods exported to or imported from Russia, Algeria, with its $227.1 million worth of goods, Italy, with its $213.5 million, the U.S., with their $159.1 million, Kazakhstan, with its $137.1 million, Iran, with its $110 million, the Ukraine, with its $109 million, Taiwan, with its $102.7 million, Germany, with its $99.3 million, and the Czech Republic, with its $57.1 million, were the countries that mattered most in the area’s foreign trade turnover in January-June 2007.