{"id":597283,"date":"2026-11-02T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=597283"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:43:34","slug":"belarus-s-goods-trade-deficit-reaches-3-9-billion-over-nine-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-s-goods-trade-deficit-reaches-3-9-billion-over-nine-months","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019s Goods Trade Deficit Reaches $3.9 Billion Over Nine Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s goods trade deficit reached $3.9 billion over the first nine months of the year, according to the latest data from Belstat. Compared with the previous year, the deficit decreased by 7.1%. In January-September 2025, it stood at nearly $4.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Goods exports increased by 22.9% over the first three quarters to $36.77 billion, while imports rose by 19.2% to $40.675 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries, Belarusian goods exports increased by 22.1% in January-September to $26.59 billion, while imports rose by 20.6% to $23.89 billion. The goods trade surplus with CIS countries amounted to $2.7 billion, up 36.9% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with countries outside the CIS, Belarusian goods exports increased by 25.1% to $10.19 billion, while imports rose by 17.3% to $16.79 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries reached $6.6 billion, 7% higher than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Belarusian goods exports increased by 24.4% to $4.41 billion. Imports rose by 15.6% to $4.92 billion. The goods trade deficit for September amounted to $510.9 million, down 28.4% from the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries in September, Belarusian exports increased by 16.9% to $3.07 billion, while imports rose by 18.6% to $3.055 billion. The trade surplus with the region amounted to just $19 million, three times less than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Belarus exported $1.34 billion worth of goods to countries outside the CIS, up 46.2% from a year earlier, while imports increased by 9.3% to $1.87 billion. The trade deficit with the region amounted to $529.9 million, down 31.1% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s goods trade deficit reached $3.9 billion over the first nine months of the year, according to the latest data from Belstat. Compared with the previous year, the deficit decreased by 7.1%. In January-September 2025, it stood at nearly $4.2 billion. Goods exports increased by 22.9% over the first three quarters to $36.77 billion, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":547150,"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\/11\/6ae85b4ee30fc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019s Goods Trade Deficit Reaches $3.9 Billion Over Nine Months"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597283","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=597283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597285,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597283\/revisions\/597285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}