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What strategic products does Azerbaijan depend on imports other than wheat?
Both Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Russia’s previous increase in wheat export duties have raised Azerbaijan’s dependence on imports of strategic products.
According to the State Statistics Committee according toAzerbaijan is not only in food, but also in many important non-food products, including construction materials and It also buys paper mainly from Russia.
Fertilizer in Azerbaijan in connection with the situation in Russia and In addition to construction materials, newsprint has also become more expensive.
Official statistics according toAzerbaijan buys newsprint from two countries – Russia and From Belarus. But Russia is dominant in this area – 2020Of the 2,300 tons of paper imported in 2012, 2,200 tons fell to Russia.
Publisher Shahbaz Khuduoglu said that, already the price of paper has risen several times in the last few months and The paper for book printing is running out.
According to economic analyst Togrul Valiyev, Russia The situation is not just about him that, The economic situation in this country has deteriorated. According to him according toAzerbaijan also used Russia as a transit point for goods imported from Europe and Azerbaijan’s supply chain broken now:
“Cargo passing through Russia will have to come through Georgia, because Western companies no longer want to work with Russia.”
Azerbaijan depends on other countries
Russia is not the only importing country of Azerbaijan. According to the State Statistics Committee according toCan be said of Azerbaijani tobacco that, brought them all from Ukraine.
Togrul Valiyev says that, Now Azerbaijan will have to look for another source country for tobacco.
According to the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan according to Most mobile phones, more than half of the batteries come from China.
Iran is also a country that imports construction materials to Azerbaijan, such as bricks and ethylene pipes.
Germany plays a dominant role in truck imports. 2020One-third of the trucks imported in 2012 fell to Germany.
The dominant country in terms of tea imports is Sri Lanka.
Potato imports depend on two countries – Russia and From Iran.
12 or 40 percent price increase?
Still that, The attention of the Azerbaijani government is focused on the import of food products and aimed at solving potential problems.
So. that, The Cabinet of Ministers instructed the Ministry of Economic Development on February 21 that, shortage of goods and of inflation snowto take measures to purchase glass – for example, to prepare proposals on the optimization of transportation and logistics costs of these goods.
The Ministry of Economy did not answer RFE / RL’s question about the nature of the measures taken.
Economic analyst Togrul Valiyev says that, The effects of Russia’s attack on Ukraine will be felt in Azerbaijan from now on:
“Prices have not risen in the last month, because everything was still there,” he said. But now new goods must come. It will be time to build a new supply chain and will take money. “
According to the State Statistics Committee according toconsumer prices in Azerbaijan rose by at least 12 percent in the first two months of this year, but independent economists say the rise is as high as 40 percent.