{"id":556217,"date":"2026-07-02T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=556217"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:29:48","slug":"foreign-trade-goods-deficit-reaches-2-2-billion-at-end-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreign-trade-goods-deficit-reaches-2-2-billion-at-end-of-may","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Trade Goods Deficit Reaches $2.2 Billion at End of May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The performance of Belarus&#8217;s foreign trade in goods continued to improve over the first five months of the year, with exports growing at a faster pace than imports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Belstat, <mark>in January\u2013May<\/mark>, Belarusian exports increased by 23% year-on-year to $19.5 billion. Imports rose by 18.8% to $21.7 billion. The foreign trade goods deficit amounted to $2.2 billion, narrowing by 8.9% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries, exports in January\u2013May increased by 22.5% to $13.93 billion, while imports rose by 20.5% to $12.765 billion. The trade surplus with the region increased 1.5-fold to $1.165 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of Belarusian goods to countries outside the CIS grew by 24.2% in January\u2013May to $5.57 billion, while imports increased by 16.4% to $8.94 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries stood at $3.37 billion, up 5.4% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p><mark>In May<\/mark>, goods exports rose by 29.1% to $4.28 billion, while imports increased by 28.8% to $4.66 billion. The monthly trade deficit totaled $373.7 million, up 25.6% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries, exports increased by 26.8% to $3.11 billion. Imports rose by 34% to $2.75 billion. The trade surplus amounted to $364.4 million, down 10.1% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to countries outside the CIS increased by 25.8% in May to $1.17 billion. Imports from those countries rose by 22% to $1.91 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries totaled $738.1 million, increasing by 5% year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance of Belarus&#8217;s foreign trade in goods continued to improve over the first five months of the year, with exports growing at a faster pace than imports. According to Belstat, in January\u2013May, Belarusian exports increased by 23% year-on-year to $19.5 billion. Imports rose by 18.8% to $21.7 billion. The foreign trade goods deficit amounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":494289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a46217fece61.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreign Trade Goods Deficit Reaches $2.2 Billion at End of May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556217","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556217\/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=556217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}