40% of oil and oil products are imported into Georgia from Russia

21/09/2022

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Within 8 months of 2022, 854,734.50 tons of oil and oil products were imported into Georgia. According to the data published by the Georgian National Statistics Office (GEOSTAT), Georgia imported the largest amount of 340,283.89 tons of oil and oil products from Russia, which is about 40% of the total volume. It should be noted that 294,269.74 tons of oil and oil products were imported into Georgia from the EU countries in January-August.

Georgia's top-10 trading partners by imports (oil and oil products) are as follows:

Russia - 340,283.89 tons

Romania - 178,925.85 tons

Turkmenistan - 124,821.08 tons

Bulgaria - 92,769.69 tons

Azerbaijan - 58,559.68 tons

Turkey - 22,524.56 tons

Greece - 17,397.00 tons

Egypt - 4,795.19 tons

Iran - 2,592.18 tons

Germany - 2,054.73 tons.

Among the largest import commodity groups, oil and oil products rank 2nd with $872.7 million (10.4% of imports).