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Thursday, 18.04.2024, 14:57
Forest industry exports from Latvia exceed EUR 1 bln in H1
The largest export markets were Great Britain, Sweden and Germany. A total of 17.7% (EUR 183.42 million) of forest industry's exports went to Great Britain, 9% (EUR 93.71 million) to Sweden, and 10.2% (EUR 106.01 million) to Germany.
Meanwhile, forest industry imports in the first six months of 2015 reached EUR 353.37 million, which is 6.8% more than in the respective period of 2014, when the figure was EUR 330.76 million.
The largest part of imports came from Lithuania – 17.1% (EUR 60.31 million), Estonia – 13.5% (EUR 47.83 million), and Poland – 11.7% (EUR 41.42 million).
As reported, Latvian forest industry's exports amounted to a record-high EUR 2.015 billion in 2014, which is 8.6% up from 2013 when the forest industry's exports totaled EUR 1.855 billion.