OREANDA-NEWS. Belarusian companies' foreign currency proceeds reduced by 1.7% on the year in January-July 2014 to USD 25.656 billion, the National Bank of Belarus said in a statistical report.

In the meantime, in July 2014 companies' foreign currency proceeds grew 5.7% month on month.

Of the total amount, commodity export proceeds reduced 3.5% on the year in January-July 2014 to USD 20.707 billion, services export proceeds went up 10.7% to USD 4.163 billion, proceeds from domestic trade for foreign exchange reduced 13.5% to USD 364.8 million, income proceeds reduced 11.2% to USD 96.2 million, and transfer proceeds went up 13.8% to USD 325.9 million.

The share of commodity export proceeds stood at 80.7% of the total foreign proceeds as of August 1, 2014, down from 82.2% in January-July 2013, proceeds from services export at 16.2%, up from 14.4%.

The share of income proceeds stands at 0.37%, down from 0.41% in Jan-Jul 2013, and transfer proceeds grew to 1.3% from 1.1%.

Corporate foreign currency proceeds from Russia reduced 3.1% on the year in January-July 2014 to USD 10.431 billion.

In the total volume of foreign exchange proceeds, the share of the U.S. dollar decreased to 21.4% in January-July 2014 from 26.2% in January-July 2013, the share of the Russian ruble decreased from 38.1% to 36.7%, the share of the euro went up to 40% from 33.6%, the share of the Belarusian ruble was at 1.03% (unchanged), and the share of other currencies totalled 0.76% (0.8%).

In 2013, currency proceeds of Belarusian companies reduced 13% to USD 44.035 billion.