{"id":564323,"date":"2026-07-31T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=564323"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:54:14","slug":"belarus-merchandise-trade-deficit-narrows-in-first-half-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-merchandise-trade-deficit-narrows-in-first-half-of-year","title":{"rendered":"Belarus&#8217; Merchandise Trade Deficit Narrows in First Half of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; merchandise trade deficit narrowed in the first half of the year, according to data released by Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; merchandise exports increased by 23.2% year on year in January\u2013June to $23.755 billion. Imports rose by 19.6% to $26.535 billion. As a result, the merchandise trade deficit stood at $2.78 billion, down 4.5% from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement was driven mainly by first-quarter performance. In the second quarter, the deficit increased by 11.6% compared with the corresponding period of last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of the year, merchandise exports to CIS countries rose by 22.1% to $17.06 billion. Imports from CIS countries increased by 20.8% to $15.555 billion. Belarus posted a merchandise trade surplus with CIS countries of $1.5 billion, up 36.6% year on year.<\/p>\n<p>Trade with countries outside the CIS saw exports increase by 26.3% to $6.7 billion, while imports from those countries rose by 17.9% to $10.98 billion. The merchandise trade deficit with non-CIS countries widened by 6.8% to $4.28 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Belarus&#8217; merchandise exports totalled $4.2 billion, an increase of 22.9% from a year earlier. Imports rose by 23.3% to $4.83 billion. The monthly merchandise trade deficit reached $617 million, the second-highest monthly figure recorded this year.<\/p>\n<p>June exports to CIS countries increased by 19.9% to $3.12 billion, while imports from the CIS rose by 22.3% to $2.79 billion. The trade surplus with CIS countries amounted to $333.3 million in June, down 2.7% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Trade with non-CIS countries saw June exports rise by 32.3% to $1.08 billion, while imports increased by 24.6% to $2.03 billion. The merchandise trade deficit with non-CIS countries reached $950.3 million, the highest monthly figure of the year. Compared with June 2025, it increased by 16.8%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217; merchandise trade deficit narrowed in the first half of the year, according to data released by Belstat. Belarus&#8217; merchandise exports increased by 23.2% year on year in January\u2013June to $23.755 billion. Imports rose by 19.6% to $26.535 billion. As a result, the merchandise trade deficit stood at $2.78 billion, down 4.5% from the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":564322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6c8cea5d744.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 Merchandise Trade Deficit Narrows in First Half of Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564323","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=564323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}