Foreign trade relations

In January-April 2025 legal and natural entities of the Republic of Azerbaijan realized trade operations with their partners in 157 countries of the world, goods were exported to 101 countries and imported from 150 countries.

Taking into account value of statistically estimated exported crude oil and natural gas registered in the customs agencies but customs formalities of which not completed, the foreign trade turnover of the country in January-April 2025 made 16419,1 million USD. 8286,2 million USD or 50,5% of trade turnover made the export value, 8132,9 million USD (49,5%) – import value, and consequently positive trade balance reached to 153,3 million USD. In comparison with January-April 2024, foreign trade turnover increased in actual prices by 18,2% and in real terms - 3,0%. Import increased in real terms by 21,0%, while export decreased by 8,7%.

In January-April 2025 the export of non-oil-gas products made 1068,6 million USD and compared to January-April 2024 it increased by 16,1% in actual prices and decreased by 8,2% in real terms.

According to the State Customs Committee data, 25,2% of foreign trade turnover of the country was with Italy, 11,5% – Türkiye, 10,8% – Russia, 8,4% – China, 3,6% - Germany, 2,8% - United Kingdom, 2,7% - the USA, 2,0% - the Czech Republic, 1,9% - each with Australia and Greece, 1,8% - Romania, 1,7% - Switzerland, 1,6% each with Georgia and Kazakhstan, 1,4% each with Croatia and Bulgaria, 1,3% - Mexico, 1,2% - Iran, 1,1% - Portugal, 1,0% - Uzbekistan, 0,9% each with Ukraine, Brazil and Canada, while 12,4% of the trade operations were with other countries.

46,8% of exports represented the value of products shipped to Italy, 13,0% to Türkiye, 3,7% to Russia, 3,5% to the Czech Republic, 3,3% each to Greece and Germany, 3,2% to Romania, 2,7% each to Croatia and Georgia, 2,5% to Bulgaria, 2,2% to Portugal, 1,8% to Switzerland, 1,6% to the United Kingdom, 1,5% - Ireland, 0,9% each to the Netherlands, and Thailand,  0,8% each to Indonesia, Serbia and Ukraine, 0,6% to Denmark, 0,4% each to Tunisia, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates, 2,2% to other countries.

In the value of non-oil and gas product exports, the share of goods shipped to Russia (30,1%), Türkiye (17,6%), Georgia (9,9%), Switzerland (9,4%), Ukraine (5,9%), Kazakhstan (3,2%), the United Arab Emirates (3,0%), the USA (2,2%), Belarus (2,2%), Turkmenistan (1,4%), Italy (1,3%), Canada (1,3%), Uzbekistan (1,3%), Germany (1,2%), Israel (1,2%), China (1,1%) predominated.

18,5% of the total value of imported goods to the country originated from Russia, 17,2% from China, 10,0% from Türkiye, 5,4% from the USA, 4,2% from the United Kingdom, 4,0% from Australia, 3,9% from Germany, 2,8% from Kazakhstan, 2,6% from Mexico, 2,4% from Iran, 1,9% each from Uzbekistan and Italy, 1,8% from Brazil, 1,6% each from Canada and Japan, 1,5% each from Switzerland, Korea and Belarus, 1,3% from South African Republic, 1,1% each from Ukraine and Turkmenistan and 12,2% from other countries.

In January-April 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year export of main types of products increased as follows: fresh fruits by 27,3%, fresh vegetables by 10,0%, sugar by 39,7%, fruit and vegetable cans by 7,9%, vegetable oils by 59,3%, tea by 2,2%, mineral fertilizers by 26,2%, unprocessed aluminum by 7,8%, cement clinkers by 15,8%, ferrous metal pipes by 69,0%, cotton yarn by 12,3%, while the export of fruit and vegetable juices decreased by 21,7%, tobacco by 59,2%, margarine and other edible mixtures by 29,0%, potatoes by 25,2%, natural grape wines and grape must by 49,4%, cotton fiber by 20,5%, polypropylene by 14,1%, polyethylene by 8,8%, electricity by 38,7%, ferrous metal rods by 47,4%, and bentonite clay by 12,7%.

In January-April 2025 compared to January-April 2024 import of wheat increased by 57,2%, butter, other dairy fats and pastes by 17,5%, raw sugar by 86,9%, potatoes by 12,6%, tea by 45,9%, poultry and its by-products by 3,4%, fresh vegetable by 35,7%, cigarettes by 2,6-fold, passenger cars by 23,2%, rolled steel by 6,4%, ferrous metal rods by 56,8%, rubber tires by 42,4%, household air conditioners by 39,6%, furniture by 2,8%, polyethylene by 11,1%, washing machines by 2,8%, polypropylene by 6,2%, buses by 2,0-fold, household refrigerators by 26,8%, while the import of fresh fruit decreased by 16,8%, chocolate and chocolate products by 3,9%, flour confectionery by 6,7%, vegetable oils by 49,0%, beef by 16,6%, pharmaceuticals by 20,3%, ferrous metal pipes by 28,7%, computing machinery, blocks and installations by 9,7%, trucks by 0,5%, mineral fertilizers by 7,1%, synthetic detergents by 8,1%, ferrous metal corners by 4,3%, cement by 5,5%.

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