TIRANA, March 20/ATA/-Albanian exports toward the EU countries was headed by the group of products “Construction material and metals”, “Textile and Footwear” and “Minerals, fuel and electricity”.
According to data provided by the Institute of Statistics, Albania’s export during the first two months of the current year got increased by 21.5%, as compared to last year.
“Construction material and metals” group influenced the increase by 8.1%, “Textile and Footwear” by 6.3%, “Food, beverage and tobacco” by 1.9%.
No group of products had any negative impact to the annual change of exports, reports INSTAT.
The positive increasing trend of the exports was maintained even in February 2018.
According to INSTAT the annual increase of exports by 18.7%, during this month was headed by the “Construction material and metals” 5.8%, “Textile and Footwear” 4.6%, “Minerals, fuel and electricity” 3.5%.
During the first two-month period of the year, the countries with which Albania had the greatest increase of exports as compared to last year are: Italy 7.7%, Spain 126.8% and Kosovo 7.4 %.
According to INSTAT, Albania’s import has also experienced an increase of about 4.1%. The greatest volume of goods brought to Albania was from Italy 5.9%, Greece 14.8 % and France 77.1%.
INSTAT appreciates that increase of the imports has been influenced by the group “Construction material and metals” with 3.0%, “Food, beverage and tobacco” with 1.3% and “Leather and other articles” with 0.6%. e.xh/ /a.g/p.s./
