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OREANDA-NEWS. AvtoVAZ intends to return to the Syrian market, where the import of LADA cars will be implemented by the company Rakha Trading - importer of Nissan cars.

"We're going back to Syria, in Lebanon, in Israel. Maybe it's not very convenient time, but we return with Nissan importers - it is very strong partners", - the source close to the leadership of AvtoVAZ informed the newspaper" Izvestia ". He also expressed the confidence that the war in Syria will come ever to the end.

According to the manager of Rakha Trading in Damascus, the Parties have not approved yet the final price list: "Prices for LADA in Syria will depend on the existing duties and taxes and, of course, on the exchange rate, which is not stable."

Full information about the exporting in 2015 was not disclosed by the company. AVTOVAZ sent most of its exports to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt and Germany, written in the company’s report for the IV quarter of 2015. Cars Granta, Largus and Priora, Lada 4x4 are still in the greatest demand in the CIS countries. In 2015, exports were about 31 million vehicles or less by 40% than in 2014 (51791 units). Decrease of sales is connected with the reduction of sales in the key export markets of AvtoVAZ - in Kazakhstan. In 2015, the car market of the country fell by 40%, while sales of LADA cars - by 46%, and the market share of LADA fell by 2.5 points to 25.2%.

LADA sales in the Ukrainian market in 2015 fell by 57% to 1049 units with an overall market decline by 50% to 46,443 cars. The share fell by 0.4% and it was 2.3%. In Azerbaijan the sales of Togliatti enterprise grew by 50% to 3603 cars. In Belarus, for 2015, it was sold more by 26% of "Lada" cars than in 2014 (2368 cars with a total stagnation of the market at the level of 32 thousand cars), the share of AvtoVAZ grew by 1.6% to 7.4%. Exports of LADA to EU countries grew by 5.6% up to 2878 cars in 2015.