Bank Of Baku

Positive balance of BOP in Azerbaijan decreases sharply

Positive balance of BOP in Azerbaijan decreases sharply
# 13 December 2012 10:35 (UTC +04:00)

 

CBA says foreign economic operations had positive balance on oil-gas sector, negative balance on non-oil sector, during January-September, 2012. Total incomes are formed on the accounts of export of oil and gas and foreign capital invested in this sphere. The payments on this sector reflect repatriation of profit and investments, import of equipments and services. Total positive balance on oil-gas sector made $ 17.7 bln.

 

Payment surplus on current transactions made $11.5 bln. Oil sector surplus covered up the $6.3 bln-deficit of current account on non-oil sector.

 

Main indexations of payment balance (mln. USD)

 

                                   

 

2011, 9 months

2012, 9 months

I. Balance of current                                14, 424.0                                             11,518.2

transaction account                                                  

Foreign trade balance                                19,604.2                                               17,506,0

Services balance                                     - 2,008.7                                               - 2,377.4

Income balance                                        - 3,703.4                                               - 3,431.5

- Repatriation of investment balance         - 3,984.6                                               - 3,655.0

Current transfers balance                            531.9                                                  - 178.9

 

 II. Balance of activity of
capital and finance                                 - 3,990.6                                                 - 7,039.9

Direct investments                                    638.3                                                     870.5

- Borrowed                                               3,108.3                                                  3,972.7

- Directed to abroad                                  - 360.7                                                   - 926.1

- Investment repatriation                            - 2,109.3                                                 - 2,176.1

Credits and other investments                    - 4,648.9                                                 - 7,912.4

Oil bonus                                                        20.0                                                           2.0

 

II. Total balance of
payment balance                                   10,433.4                                                    4,478.3

 

 

Foreign trade turnover made $ 32.1 bln and foreign trade balance completed with positive balance of $ 17.5 bln. Azerbaijan had trade contacts with 151 countries, during the same period. 9.1% of foreign trade fell to share of CIS countries, 90.8% - of foreign countries.

 

Commodity export made $ 24.8 bln during the same period, down 7.6% from previous year. Oil productions made 94.5% of exported goods. $22.52 bln-oil products were exported to foreign countries. Of this, $1.2 bln was oil processing products, $21.3 bln – crude oil. $20.1 bln of exported oil is the worth of oil produced by Azerbaijan International Operation Company. $1.2 bln of exported crude oil was sent to foreign countries by other ventures. Of this, $89.8 mln is for condensate produced from Shahdeniz field, $1.1 bln – by SOCAR.

 

Note that non-oil export rose 21.6% to $ 1,360.6 mln.

 

(mln. dollar)

Structure of export

 

2011, 9 months

2012, 9 months

Fuel and raw products

26,139.7

23,882.5

- oil and gas products

25,713.2

23,442.5

-Other raw

426.5

440.0

Machine and equipments

132.1

302.1

Consumer goods

530.9

596.2

Other goods

29.2

22.3

Total

26,831.9

24,803.1

 

The commodity import made $ 7.3 bln during the same period, up 1% from a year earlier. Consumer goods import made $ 3,067.6 mln. $ 873.0 mln of this was foodstuffs.

 

 (mln. dollar)

Structure of import

 

2011, 9 months

2012, 9 months

Consumer goods

2,752.2

3,067.6

- Food products

909.1

873.0

- Non-food productions

1,843.1

2,194.6

Investment goods

608.8

696.1

Other goods

3,866.7

3,533.3

Total

7,227.7

7,297.0

 

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