Azerbaijan exported apples totaling $ 34.7 million to Russia in 2018. This is 6.7 percent of the total amount of apples Russia imported.
In total, Russia imported 844,000 tons of apples amounted to $ 517.4 million, while it exported 11,700 tons of $ 4.11 million. The main countries exporting fresh apples to Russia are Serbia (20.7 percent) and Moldova (20.5 percent). China ranks third with 16.5 percent.
Russia also imported fresh apples from Iran (7.3 percent), Turkey (7.2 percent), Chile (5 percent), Belarus (3.4 percent), South Africa (3.4 percent), Argentina (3 percent), Brazil (2 percent), New Zealand (2.8 percent), Macedonia (1.2 percent) and other countries.
Azerbaijan is one of the main economic partners of Russia among the CIS countries and Russia remains one of Azerbaijan’s main foreign trade partners. Interregional cooperation plays an important role in the development of Russian-Azerbaijani trade and economic relations and the increase in trade turnover. Russia ranks first in terms of export of non-oil products from Azerbaijan.
So far, Azerbaijan invested more than $1 billion in the Russian economy, and Russia invested more than $4.2 billion in Azerbaijan’s economy. About 760 companies with Russian capital operate in Azerbaijan, making the two countries strategic partners.
