{"id":499431,"date":"2025-12-01T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499431"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:48:36","slug":"belarus-trade-deficit-reaches-5-28-billion-in-january-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-trade-deficit-reaches-5-28-billion-in-january-october","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Trade Deficit Reaches $5.28 Billion in January\u2013October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s trade deficit in goods reached $5.28 billion in January\u2013October, a 45% increase compared with the same period last year, according to fresh data from Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the goods trade deficit amounted to $718.4 million, 40.5% more than in the same month last year. The monthly deficit decreased by $30.1 million compared with September and became the second highest this year.<\/p>\n<p>In October, goods exports rose by 8.4% to $3.79 billion, while imports increased by 12.5% to $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s exports to CIS countries in October grew by 11.2% to $2.89 billion, while imports increased by 20.5% to $2.69 billion. The surplus in trade with CIS countries amounted to $196.8 million, down 45.9% year on year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of Belarusian goods to non-CIS countries in October rose by only 0.4% to $897.8 million, while imports increased by 2.5% to $1.81 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries amounted to $915.2 million, up 4.6% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In January\u2013October, Belarus\u2019s goods exports decreased by 1.7% to $33.38 billion. Imports grew by 2.8% to $38.66 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Over the ten-month period, exports to CIS countries increased by 1.4% to $24.625 billion, while imports grew by 3.3% to $22.5 billion. The trade surplus with CIS countries totalled $2.12 billion, a 14.9% decrease year on year.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with non-CIS countries in January\u2013October, Belarus\u2019s exports fell by 9.6% to $8.75 billion, while imports from these countries increased by 2.1% to $16.16 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries reached $7.41 billion, up 20.6% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s trade deficit in goods reached $5.28 billion in January\u2013October, a 45% increase compared with the same period last year, according to fresh data from Belstat. In October, the goods trade deficit amounted to $718.4 million, 40.5% more than in the same month last year. The monthly deficit decreased by $30.1 million compared with September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d566b15baa.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Trade Deficit Reaches $5.28 Billion in January\u2013October"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499431","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\/499431","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=499431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}