REUTERS
Foodstuff, pharmaceuticals, cellphones, household appliances, furniture, clothes, and shoes accounted for 27.7% of total imports.
The State Customs Service of Ukraine says in January-March 2020 (Q1) imports of "smuggling-sensitive" consumer goods grew by 24.5% year-over-year (y-o-y), to US$3.35 billion from US$2.7 billion.
Such consumer goods as foodstuff, pharmaceuticals, cellphones, household appliances, furniture, clothes, and shoes accounted for 27.7% of total imports, the agency's press service said on its website on April 8.
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In particular, Ukraine in Q1 imported foodstuff worth US$1.03 billion, which was 31% up y-o-y; pharmaceutical products worth US$439 million (27% up); cellphones worth US$190 million (71% up); household appliances and components worth US$154 million (32% up); clothing and shoes worth US$371 million (43% up); furniture, bedding, and mattresses worth US$28 million (25% up); and tobacco worth US$59 million (6% up).
At the same time, imports of raw materials (ores, coal, natural gas, crude oil, ferrous metals, fertilizers) and means of production (machinery, tractors, other equipment) over the period under review shrank from US$7.80 billion to US$7.07 billion, which accounted for 58.4% of total imports.
In particular, Ukraine in Q1 imported boilers, machinery, equipment and mechanical devices worth US$789 million (22% down); tractors for agriculture worth US$97 million (11% down); motor vehicles for goods transportation worth US$65 million (25% down); coal worth US$415 million (44% down); coke and semi-coke worth US$8 million (90% down); mineral fertilizers worth US$271 million (37% down); diesel fuel worth US$738 million (13% down); ore, slag, ash worth US$31 million (61% down): and crude oil worth US$117 million (57% down).
As UNIAN reported earlier, in March 2020, Ukraine's national budget received UAH 29 billion (US$1.1 billion) in revenue from the customs, which was 16% down from the target.
Taxable imports in March 2020 alone totaled 5.2 million tonnes worth US$4.4 billion, which was 13.5% down in weight and 4.7% less in value y-o-y.