Import of 3.6 million dollars from Azerbaijan and export of 0 drams. January “records”

For years, despite the lack of diplomatic relations and closed borders, Armenia has conducted a large volume of trade with Turkey in a mediated way. But that trade was exclusively one-sided.

A large amount of Turkish goods were imported and sold in Armenia. Instead, there were almost no exports from Armenia to Turkey. Their volumes, compared to imports of Turkish goods, were insignificant. Barely a few hundred thousand or a few million dollars a year. However, Turkish imports amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Turkey’s economy has benefited from it. Through the imports of Turkish goods, Armenia made an indirect investment of several hundreds of millions of dollars in the Turkish economy every year. In return, he received cheap products, which often created problems for domestic manufacturers. Not being able to withstand the competition, they were pushed out. Despite this circumstance, the authorities did nothing to protect the local producer, to increase the competitive opportunities.

Even today, under the closed border conditions, a large amount of imports from Turkey are carried out to Armenia. Although they have been talking about opening the border for a long time, the border remains closed. Sometimes it opens and closes again on different occasions.

They are waiting when the current rulers of Armenia will fully satisfy all the demands of Azerbaijan in order to open the Armenian-Turkish border. However, it is still a big question, is it more beneficial for Armenia to be closed or to be opened?

Turkey does not feel bad in the Armenian market even under the conditions of closed border.

Last year, more than 368 million dollars worth of goods were imported from that country, 32 million more than the previous year. In the conditions of a sharp decline in the general trade of Armenia, imports from Turkey have increased by almost 10 percent.

The flow of Turkish goods to Armenia is maintained this year as well. In January, 25.5 million dollars were imported. Last year there were only 16.7 million. An increase of more than 52 percent was registered.

And as always, unofficial trade relations with Turkey have been one-sided. Compared to 25.5 million imports, exports are zero. Despite the “fraternal” aspirations of today’s rulers of Armenia with the Turks, Armenian products continued to have no place in the Turkish market.

Last year, barely 473 thousand dollars were exported to Turkey, only 60 thousand dollars more than 1 year ago.

Can you imagine what kind of “serious” progress has been made in the case of exports of Armenian products from Armenia to Turkey?

After solving the issues of unilateral trade with Turkey “fundamentally”, they have now moved on to the implementation of trade with Azerbaijan. And again in a unilateral mode. There have been cases all over the world that Azerbaijani goods are imported from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

For dozens of years, the Armenian-Azerbaijani trade index has been zero in official statistics. Of course, episodic cases were recorded in individual years, but they both appeared and quickly disappeared from the official statistics.

At the price of handing over Artsakh, deporting the people of Artsakh, depriving them of their homes, they finally achieved their long-time dream: they trade with Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani oil products have been imported to Armenia since the end of last year.

The first batch arrived in December. What’s more, after that the prices of gasoline decreased a little, they raised such enthusiasm as if they had brought back Artsakh. The cheapening of gasoline was linked to the import of petroleum products worth several hundred thousand Azerbaijani dollars. Later, of course, it turned out that they also faked it, the decrease in prices was the result of changes in the international markets, not the import of Azerbaijani gasoline.

According to official statistics, trade with Azerbaijan in December last year amounted to 873.4 thousand dollars. That was the whole year’s trade, exclusively in one direction. Azerbaijani oil products were brought.

In January of this year, trade of around 2.7 million dollars was carried out and again in the form of import of oil products.

After January, more Azerbaijani oil products were imported to Armenia, but these data are still not included in the official statistical indicators.

In December of last year and January of this year, within 2 months, imports from Azerbaijan to Armenia amounted to almost 3.6 million dollars. Instead, zero drams were exported from Armenia.

Such trade relations were established between Armenia and Azerbaijan through the efforts of CP members. When they ask why Armenian products are not exported to Azerbaijan, they tell fairy tales, they talk about exchanges of product lists, but the result is zero.

There are no Armenian products in both the Turkish and Azerbaijani markets, instead, along with the expansion of the presence of Turkish products, Azerbaijan is now also conveniently located in the Armenian market, which is greatly supported by the rulers of Armenia. They are trying to create the illusion of establishing mutual trade relations with unilateral trade.

What will be the end of this will be seen later.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN

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