The Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Relations of Sverdlovsk Region published some data on the region’s socioeconomic development in January-February 2008. The region’s foreign trade turnover reached $837.3m in January 2008, which is 27.3% better than a year earlier. These figures include $624.3m worth of exported goods (which exceeds the figures for January 2007 by 17.4%) and $213m worth of imported goods (which is 68.6% more than last January).