Serbia continues to be Kosovo's main importer of goods

While reciprocity with Serbia is currently not in the issues discussed, Serbia continues to be the main importer of goods in Kosovo from CEFTA countries. Foreign trade statistics show this for the first three months of 2022, published by the Kosovo Statistics Agency. Until imports from countries [...]
Foreign trade statistics show this for the first three months of 2022, published by the Kosovo Statistics Agency.
Until imports from CEFTA countries in March 2022 reached 93.2m euros, from January to March 32.2 million euros in goods have been imported from Serbia, marking more than 1/3 of the imports made from these countries.
Compared to the same period in 2021, in this quarter Serbia turns out to have imported about 10m euros more goods to Kosovo.
It leaves Albania behind, which has participation in import 28.4m euros, as well as Macedonia with 26.4m euros.
The total value of Kosovo imports in January-March 2022 is over 493.9m euros, of which 205.4m euros, or 41.6% of them, are imports from EU countries.
CEFTA countries are the second value importers, with participation in import of 18.9%.
72.9m or 14.8% are imports mainly from Turkey, but the other two European countries -- Great Britain and Ukraine.
The three Asian countries -- Japan, China and India -- mark import participation in value of 56.6m euros or 11.5%.
While other non-European countries have imported 11.9m euros, accounting for 2.4% of total imports.
And the countries that imported at least are from EFTA, with a total of 3.2m euros, or 0.7%.
50.4m euros are classified as imports from other countries, and translated into percentages by 10.2% of total import.
Seen separately, top five countries from which Kosovo has mostly imported through January, February and March 2022 are: Turkey first with 13.8% participation in import, Germany with 10.6%, China with 10.5%, Serbia with 6.5% and Albania at 5.8%.












