Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.14 / Trend, A.Akhundov /
Azerbaijani State Customs Committee (SCC) announced result of foreign trade operations with 149 countries in 2011, the State Committee told Trend on Saturday.
The country's total trade turnover amounted to $36.327 billion, or 29.92 per cent more compared to 2010.
Black ink worth $16.815 billion was formed in foreign-trade operations.
During this period 8,450 legal and physical entities were involved in the foreign-trade operations, 3,843 of them were legal entities, while 4,697 physical entities.
Export operations amounted to $26.571 billion in 2011 or 24.39 per cent more compared to 2010.
Share of public sector in export amounted to $25.251 billion (95.03 percent), private sector - $1.127 billion (4.24 percent), share of physical entities - $0.193 billion (0.73 percent).
Import hit $9.756 billion in 2011 or 47.81 percent more compared to 2010.
Share of public sector in import operations amounted to $3.404 billion (34.89 percent), private sector - $5.901 billion (60.49 percent), physical entities - $0.451 billion (4.62 percent).
Azerbaijan exported 2,082 types of commodities and imported 6,233 types in 2011.