Azerbaijan starts buying sunflower oil from Portugal

For eleven months of 2021, Azerbaijan purchased 46,938.95 tons of sunflower or safflower oil from abroad for $62,948,380, Report informs, referring to the State Statistics Committee.

Compared to the same period last year, imports increased in value terms by 67.32%, in quantitative terms - by 1.61%.

Some 46,125.35 tons of products worth $61,482,770 were imported to Azerbaijan from Russia, 563.46 tons worth $1,039,420 from Turkey, 197.44 tons worth $325,430 from Ukraine, 22.23 tons for $53,380 from Italy, 24.73 tons for $34,690 from Iran.

After two years and four months, Azerbaijan imported 10 kg of product worth $30 from Luxembourg, 10 kg worth $50 from Portugal for the first since 2011

During the reporting period, 5,307.77 tons of sunflower or safflower oil were exported from Azerbaijan for $8.405,510, which is 3.38% less and 49.07% more than in the same period last year.