BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 21. The volume of trade operations between Azerbaijan and China amounted to $379.5 million in January 2025.
The data obtained by Trend from the Azerbaijani Customs Committee shows that this figure surged by $160.3 million (73.1 percent) compared to 2023.
The trade turnover with China amounted to 7.46 percent of Azerbaijan's total trade turnover for the reporting period.
Azerbaijan exported products worth $1.1 million to China this January, which is $269 million (19.5 percent) less than in 2023, making up 0.04 percent of export operations with China in the reporting period.
During the reporting period, Azerbaijan imported the most products from China. Thus, product imports from China to Azerbaijan increased by $160.6 million (73.7 percent) year-on-year and reached $378.4 million. During the period, import transactions with China accounted for 18.44 percent of the country's total imports.
To note, in January of the current year, the volume of foreign trade turnover of Azerbaijan stood at $5.9 billion. This indicator is $2.1 billion million (70.5 percent) more than the same month last year.
Last month, $3.4 billion of trade turnover was accounted for by exports and $2.5 billion by imports, which are $1.2 billion (64.8 percent) and $910 million (79.7 percent) more than the previous year, respectively.
During the reporting period, the Foreign Trade Surplus totaled $986 million, up $285 million, or 40.7 percent, from a year earlier.
