TIRANA, October 4 /ATA/ Albania and Spain have significantly increased trade cooperation. Trade exchanges between Albania and Spain are estimated during this 8-month period at around ALL 22.8 billion, from ALL 17.1 billion that were for the same period of 2020.
Exports of goods to Spain during the first eight months of this year increased by 35%, reaching a value of over ALL 14.9 billion.
Referring to the data published by the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), in the report on foreign trade for the period January-August it results that the group of minerals, fuels and electricity occupies almost 90% of the volume of total exports.
During this period, over 13.4 billion ALL of minerals, fuels and electricity were exported to Spain.
Meanwhile, there is a decrease of about 40% in the exports of the textile and footwear group.
Exports of this group fell to 313 million ALL, from 505 million ALL in the same period of 2020.
The value of goods imported from Spain during the period January-August is estimated at over 7.3 billion ALL from 6.1 billion ALL that were imported in the same period of 2020./j.p/r.e/p.s./
