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At the time China was already a big supplier of imports to Ukraine, selling $916mn of goods to Ukraine in the first four months of the year, but Ukraine sold next to nothing to China, which didn't appear in the top 15 export destinations from Ukraine at all.
That changed dramatically in the next four months from May to August. Now China tops both lists, buying $2.4bn worth of Ukrainian goods and selling $5.7bn of goods to Ukraine between January and August.
Poland is now the second biggest export market, buying $2.2bn, and the balance of trade with Poland remains fairly balanced.
Counter intuitively the trade deficit with Russia has got bigger as while Ukraine exported $2.2bn worth of goods to Russia in 8M19, the imports from Russia also soared to $4.9bn in 8M19, leaving Ukraine with a trade deficit of a whopping $2.5bn for the period.
From Ukraine’s other trade partners, Germany is the one to watch, as it has also been climbing up the rankings. In April Germany didn't rank amongst the top 15 export markets, but was the fourth most important source of imports, selling $927mn worth of goods in 4M19.
However, by August Germany had shot up both rankings and is now the sixth most important Ukrainian export market, buying $1.5bn worth of goods over 8M19 but selling a whopping $4bn of goods to Ukraine. The trade deficit Ukraine is now running with Germany of about $2.5bn is on a par with Russia’s, and exports from Germany to Ukraine are worth about a billion dollars less than those from Russian, but Germany is expected to continue to close the gap as Ukraine re-orientates away from Russian goods and towards European goods.
32 UKRAINE Country Report November 2019 www.intellinews.com