The number of businessmen participating in export-import trades via Krasnodar Customs in Q1, 2010 rose to 1,030 traders, up 10% from 2009 numbers.
The Krasnodar Custom has processed in the reporting period 8.012 cargo customs declarations, also a 8.9% rise from Q1,09. The figures include 369 electronic and 803 web-based declarations.
Foreign trade turnover grew by 84% and amounted to $1,437.46 million, imports value rose 56.8%, exports by 43.2%.
In Q1,10 almost 87 percent of outbound commodities passing via the Krasnodar Customs were oil and oil products (62.9%) and grain (23.5%). In inbound cargoes about 56% were vessels and 40.3% floating structures, equipment (8.3%), petroleum and petroleum products (7.1%).
Major inbound volumes were imported from Romania, China, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, Italy and Belgium and Ukraine.
Of overall outbound goods were exported to Singapore, Turkey, Italy, Romania, France, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Georgia (including Abkhazia) and Kazakhstan.
Export trade flows increased by 33% to $620.61 million thanks to grown oil and grain products processed at the Customs.
Imports valued $816.84 million, a 159% spike from Q1, 2009 (the products of ferrous metals, sugar, plastics, oil). Customs boosted procedures throughput, processing vessels documents, to $328 million, fats and edible oils, to $40.5 million
The Krasnodar Customs work in Q1 resulted in 5.56b rubles transferred to the federal budget (+54% up from 2009).
The Federal and local budgets received 2.45b rubles from export duty vs 1.29b rubles a year earlier. The increased by 33 percent export trade flows have brought 1.15 billion rubles.
Revenues from taxed imports totaled 3.05 billion rubles (+37% yoy).
Read more details on the first-quarter grain exports in Russian ports, see "Relevant Topic", April 21, 2010