{"id":494290,"date":"2025-10-31T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=494290"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:57:07","slug":"belarus-foreign-trade-deficit-rises-to-4-55-billion-in-january-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-foreign-trade-deficit-rises-to-4-55-billion-in-january-september","title":{"rendered":"Belarus. Foreign Trade Deficit Rises to $4.55 Billion in January\u2013September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belstat has published data on foreign trade in goods for January\u2013September. In September, the largest monthly deficit of the year was recorded at $741 million. As a result, over the nine-month period, imports exceeded exports by $4.55 billion. The main contributor to the increase in the deficit in September was a deterioration in trade performance with CIS countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Belstat, in January\u2013September Belarusian exports of goods fell by 2.9% to $29.59 billion, while imports grew by 1.6% to $34.14 billion. The resulting deficit of $4.55 billion was 45.3% higher than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of goods to CIS countries over the nine months rose by only 0.3% to $21.73 billion. Imports from these countries increased by 1.3% to $19.8 billion. The trade surplus with the CIS amounted to $1.93 billion, down 9.5% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian exports beyond the CIS fell by 10.6% to $7.86 billion over the first three quarters, while imports from this group of countries rose by 2% to $14.34 billion. The deficit in trade with non-CIS countries reached $6.48 billion, 23.1% higher than last year.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Belarusian exports of goods fell by 6% to $3.51 billion, while imports also declined by 1.6%. The deficit of $741 million was 21.7% higher than in the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to CIS countries in September decreased by 0.6% to $2.62 billion, while imports rose by 17.5% to $2.57 billion. The trade surplus with CIS countries in September amounted to only $55 million, nine times less than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to non-CIS countries in September plunged by 19% to $886.1 million. Imports from these countries also dropped sharply, falling by 22% to $1.68 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS states stood at $796.1 million, 25% lower than last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belstat has published data on foreign trade in goods for January\u2013September. In September, the largest monthly deficit of the year was recorded at $741 million. As a result, over the nine-month period, imports exceeded exports by $4.55 billion. The main contributor to the increase in the deficit in September was a deterioration in trade performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/690479e90c60a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus. Foreign Trade Deficit Rises to $4.55 Billion in January\u2013September"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}