ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Feb. 24
By Huseyn Hasanov– Trend:
Forty-two transactions were registered at the trading of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week, Trend reports referring to the commodity.
Businessmen from Russia, the UK, the UAE, Turkey, and Afghanistan purchased petroleum coke, base oil, and gasoline.
High-density polyethylene was sold to businessmen from Russia, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, while plastic containers were sold to businessmen from the UAE.
Furthermore, licorice root extract, cotton yarn, furniture wool and handmade carpet were sold to businessmen from Russia, the US, the UAE, Turkey, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan and Estonia.
The total amount of transactions exceeded $65.1 million.
Participants in exchange trading can be enterprises and organizations of all forms of ownership, citizens of Turkmenistan and other states by acquiring a brokerage place or by concluding a contract with exchange brokers.
The main export items of Turkemnistan are petroleum products, cotton fiber, domestic textile products, and the chemical industry.
Prices for some products put up for auction change daily and are set in accordance with the international quotations; for cotton in accordance with Liverpool’s Cotton Outlook news agency and for oil products in accordance with Platts news agency.
