Positive foreign trade balance of Ukraine (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the zone of the antiterrorist operation) for Jan — Dec 2016 $337,3 million against a positive balance of $3 billion. 828,2 million for the same period in 2015, according to the State statistics service of Ukraine (gosstat).
In particular, for the 12 months 2016, with the CIS countries recorded a trade surplus in goods and services in the amount of $278,1 million compared to a surplus of $68.1 million for the same period in 2015, in trade with other countries of the world recorded a surplus of $59.2 million compared to a surplus of $3 billion 760,1 million At the same time, with EU countries recorded deficits of $3 billion 689,3 million compared to a deficit of $2 billion 736,4 million.
