Georgia demonstrates nine-fold growth in imports of Azerbaijani beverages and tobacco

Georgia imported beverage and tobacco products worth $978,500 from Azerbaijan in the first two months of 2024, Report informs.

As indicated in the data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia, this is a nine-fold growth compared to the indicator of 2023.

In total, Georgia bought beverage and tobacco products worth $34.3 million from abroad in January-February of this year, which is 18.3 percent more than a year ago.

In particular, Georgia imported the mentioned products worth $4.36 million from Lithuania, $4.12 million from Türkiye, $3.36 million from Ukraine, $2.3 million from Armenia, and $2 million from Italy.

Meanwhile, in 2023, Georgia purchased $286 million worth of beverage and tobacco products from abroad, of which $12.3 million came from Azerbaijan.