In the first 5 months of this year, the value of goods imported from Turkey increased 10 times

In the first 5 months of this year, about 76 million dollars worth of goods were imported from Turkey to Armenia. This is reported by the Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia. In particular, goods worth 7.9 million dollars were imported in January, 14.9 million dollars in February, 18.2 million dollars in March, 17.8 million dollars in April, and 17.3 million dollars in May. It is noteworthy that during the whole year of 2021, 73 million dollars worth of goods were imported from Turkey to our country, and 7.6 million dollars worth of goods were imported from Turkey in the same period last year. In other words, the increase was 10 times. Let's remind that from January 1, 2022, the RA government canceled the embargo on the import of saliva products. Armenia imposed a ban on the import of Turkish goods in December 2020, after Turkey openly supported Azerbaijan against Artsakh in 2020. in the war that started on September 27. Before that, Armenia imported 250-270 million dollars of goods from Turkey annually.