OREANDA-NEWS. July 27, 2012. Trade turnover between Uzbekistan and Russia made up USD 1.367 billion in January-May 2012, the Russian Federal Customs Service said.

The FCS said that trade turnover between two nations fell by 0.9% year-on-year in January-May 2012.

According to the data of Russian service, the volume of exports from Russia to Uzbekistan grew by 8.1% year-on-year to USD 823.4 million in January-May 2012.

At the same time, imports of Russia from Uzbekistan decreased by 11.9% year-on-year in the reporting period to USD 544 million.

Uzbekistan is the fourth largest trade partner of Russia in the CIS. Ukraine (USD 18.8bn), Belarus (USD 15.1bn) and Kazakhstan (USD 8.2bn) claimed the first three places.