OREANDA-NEWS. June 08, 2012. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov informed about reducing a negative surplus of trade balance in Ukraine by 1 billion 270 million US dollars in the first 4 months 2012.

PM informed about it during a meeting with economic experts when discussing a program of import substitution and domestic market development.

"We have cut a negative surplus of our trade balance for the first 4 months by almost 1 billion 270 million US dollars. This is of course positive. However, it is still negative regarding goods," he said.