29 июля 200808:20
Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover comes to $5.5bn in January-May 2008
Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover came to $5.5bn in January-May 2008, which was 24.6% better than in January-May 2007. The figures include $4.1bn worth of exported goods (which was 15% better than a year earlier) and $1.4bn worth of imported goods (which exceeds the figures for January-May 2007 by 63.7%). The region’s large and medium-scale enterprises made 76.8 billion RUR worth of profits in the first five months of 2008, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 5.3%, and sustained 5.1 billion RUR worth of losses, which exceeds the figures for January-May 2007 by 63.2%. Thus