Baku, Azerbaijan, August 14
By Fakhri Vakilov - Trend:
The deals concluded on the Uzbek Commodity Exchange (UZEX) for the period from August 5-11, 2019, amounted to 795.4 billion soums, Trend reports with reference to UZEX.
The total amount of transactions involving small businesses and private entrepreneurship amounted to 391.5 billion soums.
The volume of exchange trading increased from 618 to 681.5 billion soums, with 10.3 percent growth compared to the previous week.
At the foreign exchange trading platform, the sale of goods increased many times to $6 million.
In the export structure, cotton fiber accounted for 52 percent, polyethylene of various grades amounted to 33 percent, pyrolysis gasoline to 12 percent, and technical oils accounted for 3 percent.
The volume of exhibition and fair trade amounted to 29.6 billion soums last week.
The amount of goods purchased by small businesses amounted to 5.7 billion soums, or 19.2 percent of the total amount of transactions.
Last week, transactions worth 81.8 billion soums were concluded through xarid.uz, a special information portal on public procurement. The total amount of savings of budget and corporate customers exceeded 16.7 billion soums.
During the period under review, 716 car license plates were sold through an online auction. The cumulative amount of sold state license plates was about 2.5 billion soums.
As a result of competitive bidding, 17.5 percent of deals were made on premium class license plates, 50.8 percent of deals on category 2 and also 31.7 percent on category 3 of license plates.
($1 = 8882 soums on August 14)
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