TIRANA, Oct 19 /ATA/ – Albania’s exports rose by 36.5% year-on-year in the nine months through September to 2.18 billion euros or 266 billion lek, up by 18% compared to the same period of 2019, official data published from the Prime Minister’s office showed on Tuesday.
According to official data, the construction materials and metals groups mainly contributed to growth of country’s exports in the period under review.
Exports of the construction materials and metals rose 14.3 %, minerals, fuels and electricity increased by 11.6 % and textile and footwear exports rose 3.5 % in the first three quarters of 2021.
Exports increased compared to same period of 2019, exceeding the pre-pandemic volume of the country’s exchanges. Albania’s exports in the first nine months of 2019 were valued at 225 billion lek.
Exports of the construction materials and metals group registered an increase of 56 % to 56.3 billion lek compared to same period of 2019. Meanwhile, exports of minerals, fuel and electricity rose 39 % on the year to 50.9 billion lek compared to 2019, while food, beverages and tobacco group recorded an increase of 25 % to 31,7 billion lek.
The Prime Minister’s office also said that imports rose by 30% year-on-year to 4.6 billion euros or 555.6 billion lek.
Albania imported mostly machineries, equipment and spare parts up by 7.8 %, construction materials and metals increasing by 4.7 %, minerals, fuel and electricity 4.6 %.
The import of machineries and equipment, a direct indicator of investments in economy, rose by 26 % compared to the same period in 2019 to 123.7 billion lek.
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