REUTERS
Exports of Ukrainian goods January through November 2015 declined by 30.9% to $34.5 billion against a backdrop of a sharp decline in production output in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and turbulences on Ukraine's key commodity markets, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported.
"The overall negative contribution of the two regions [Donetsk and Luhansk] made up 40.6% of the total export decline rate," the ministry's statement reads.
At the same time, the ministry underlined that the EU had been and remained a key trading partner of Ukraine, with the country's exports to the EU accounting for 34% of the total volume. While exports to Russia stood at a mere 12.7% of the total exports.
Major trading partners of Ukraine include Turkey (with the share of exports being 7.2%), China (6.6%), Egypt (5.4%), India (3.7%), Belarus (2.3%), Saudi Arabia (2.1%), Kazakhstan (1.9%), and Israel (1.6%).
Shipments of food and other agricultural products (worth $13 billion), metallurgy ($8.8 billion) and machinery ($4.1 billion) made up most of the country's exports.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine posted a surplus of the balance of payments in January-November 2015 at $566 million against a deficit of $11.046 billion during the same period in 2014.