Kurte cited the danger of a new conflict, but July broke the record in the last eight years for importing goods from Serbia

Kosovo continues to be threatened by Serbia, but is still dependent on its import.

This is borne out by the annual value of import.

Last July was the month when goods have been introduced in Kosovo mostly since 2015.

Serbia's purchase point was marked by a month of August.

While Serbia's highest import rate in this year is marked in March, at a value of 27,384,602.91 euros. That amount was exceeded in the past month, amounting to 30,167,808.54 euros. So according to Kosovo Customs statistics, this figure has not been in a month since 2015, writes Periscope.

In 2021, the month when Serbia had registered the largest sale in Kosovo was October, worth 26,593,489.56 euros. In 2020, the highest import was registered in the month of December in many of the 12,722,367.83 euros. In 2019 the largest import figure was recorded only for less than half a million euros, which was in August.

Even in August 2018, the highest import rate of 21,457,479,61 euros has been recorded. Also, the highest figure recorded in 2017 of imports was in August at a value of 23,161,312.65 euros. Even August 2016 holds the primat, where goods are mostly imported at a value of 22,963,136,49 euros. Customs records he saw. Periscope, show that in the month when goods were imported most from Serbia in 2015, it is also August, where the value had reached 26,890,596.09 euros.

For seven months, January-July 2022, Kosovo has purchased goods from Serbia worth 166, 054, 457 euros.

After a sharp decline in 2019, when Kosovo implemented reciprocity with Serbia that almost brought the deadlock of imports into the January-June 2021 period, the northern neighbour also found the ground under Albin Kurti's government, and moved back to the first place from the CEFTA region, which includes Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

According to Kosovo Customs data, import in Serbia from 1 January to 31 December 2021 has been 243m and 466 thousand euros. Albania has been slightly lower in numbers, worth 238m and 600 thousand euros. Goods purchases from northern Macedonia 176m and 448m euros.

In other years, Serbia similarly occupied the Kosovo market with its goods. It exported 285 million and 300 thousand euros in 2014, 368 million and 200 thousand in 2015, 382 million and 100 thousand in 2016, and 387 million in that 2017.

“Serbia sent and Kosovo received products worth no less than 449m and 900 thousand euros from there, mostly from 2008.

The economic conquest Serbia was making to the Kosovo market for a decade (2008-18), the momentum halted the 10% tax first, and then 100% that the Kosovo Government, then led by Ramush Haradinaj, put on products of Serbian and Bosnian origin at the marathon of 2018. The total amount of its remittances from 449m to 900 thousand euros as it was in 2018 fell to only 5 million and 578 thousand euros in that 2019.

The tax lasted nearly a year and a half until 31 March 2020. On that date, he removed and replaced the new prime minister, Albin Kurti, with reciprocity. This presented him with much trouble during his first term. On the one hand, reciprocity was being accepted by Serbia, which conditioned the resumption of dialogue with Kosovo with the removal of this move.

Foreign diplomatic pressure made it its own. The LDK, which was in a coalition with the VV, broke the deal and created a new government with the AAK and NISMA.

Among the first actions the new ruler took at the time, Avdullah Hoti, was the removal of reciprocity with Serbia in June 2020. The northern neighbour, during 2020, sent products worth 190,98,000 euros. /Periscopi/