Belarus' total Exports in 2021 were valued at US$39.89 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Belarus' main export partners were: Russia, Poland and Ukraine. The top three export commodities were: Commodities not specified according to kind; Dairy products, eggs, honey, edible products and Wood and articles of wood, wood charcoal. Total Imports were valued at US$41.81 Billion. In 2021, Belarus had a trade deficit of US$1.92 Billion.

Belarus' total Imports in 2021 were valued at US$41.81 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Belarus' main import partners were: Russia, China and Germany. The top three import commodities were: Commodities not specified according to kind; Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers and Electrical, electronic equipment. Total Exports were valued at US$39.89 Billion. In 2021, Belarus had a trade deficit of US$1.92 Billion.

Belarus BY: Exports: Lead Time: Median Case data was reported at 2.000 Day in 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 2.000 Day for 2016. Belarus BY: Exports: Lead Time: Median Case data is updated yearly, averaging 2.000 Day from Dec 2012 (Median) to 2018, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.000 Day in 2018 and a record low of 2.000 Day in 2018. Belarus BY: Exports: Lead Time: Median Case data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belarus – Table BY.World Bank.WDI: Trade Statistics. Lead time to export is the median time (the value for 50 percent of shipments) from shipment point to port of loading. Data are from the Logistics Performance Index survey. Respondents provided separate values for the best case (10 percent of shipments) and the median case (50 percent of shipments). The data are exponentiated averages of the logarithm of single value responses and of midpoint values of range responses for the median case.;World Bank and Turku School of Economics, Logistic Performance Index Surveys. Data are available online at : http://www.worldbank.org/lpi. Summary results are published in Arvis and others' Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators report.;Unweighted average;

This graph shows the growth in the U.S. import volume of trade goods from Russia from 1992 to 2023. In 2023, U.S. imports from Russia amounted to approximately 4.57 billion U.S. dollars. RussiaRussia's foreign trade balance of goods generated a surplus of about 187 billion U.S. dollars, with more resulting from exports than imports in 2014. Russia exported trade goods valued about 418.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. In a global ranking of national exports, Russia was sixteenth. Leading exporters like China, the United States, and Germany are exporting goods worth between 1.5 and 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars. The placement of Russia’s export ranking is linear with its placement on the ranking of the biggest economies in the world. Russia had the eleventh largest GDP worldwide with about 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. Russia's most important export countries are mostly its direct neighbors, like China, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Kazakhstan. About 35 percent of all exports go to neighboring countries. China is the most important country within the aforementioned nations, which takes about 8 percent of Russia's exported goods. The United States are not among the top ten. The nation sits in twelfth place of Russia's export destinations, with about three percent. The products exported from Russia are unsurprisingly mainly mineral products and metals, with crude and refined petroleum making up for 54 percent of all exports. The main export product apart from resources is wheat. Exported wheat from Russia was valued at about 6.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. Russia is one of the principal wheat exporters. Although the development of Russia's exports has been somewhat positive in recent years, the political crisis with the Ukraine, resulting in economic sanctions applied by important trade countries like Germany, the EU, the United States and many others, might have dampened foreign trade altogether. The result was a negative growth in exports of about five percent in 2014.

With over *** million Russian rubles worth of whey imports from Russia, Kazakhstan was the major export destination of Russian whey in 2019 . Belarus and Ukraine made it in the top three with *** and *** million Russian rubles of imported whey, respectively.

Abstract

This research was conducted in Belarus from March 10 to April 20, 2005, as part of the third round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey. The objective of the study is to obtain feedback from enterprises in client countries on the state of the private sector as well as to help in building a panel of enterprise data that will make it possible to track changes in the business environment over time, thus allowing, for example, impact assessments of reforms. Through face-to-face interviews with firms in the manufacturing and services sectors, the survey assesses the constraints to private sector growth and creates statistically significant business environment indicators that are comparable across countries.

The survey topics include firm characteristics, information about sales/suppliers, competition, infrastructure services, judiciary/law enforcement collaboration, security, government policies/laws/regulations, financing, overall business environment, bribery, capacity utilization, performance and investment activities, and workforce composition.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

The primary sampling unit of the study is the establishment.

Universe

The manufacturing and services sectors are the primary business sectors of interest.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The information below is taken from "The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) 2005: A brief report on observations, experiences and methodology from the survey" prepared by Synovate, a research company that implemented BEEPS III instrument.

The general targeted distributional criteria of the sample in BEEPS III countries were to be as follows:

1) Coverage of countries: The BEEPS III instrument was to be administered to approximately 9,500 enterprises in 28 transition economies: 16 from CEEE (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, FR Yugoslavia, FYROM, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Turkey) and 12 from the CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan).

2) Sector: In each country, the sectoral composition of the sample in terms of manufacturing (including agro-processing) (1) versus services (including commerce) (2)was to be determined by their relative contribution to GDP. Firms that operate in sectors subject to government price regulation and prudential supervision, such as banking, electric power, rail transport, and water and waste water, were to be excluded from the design of the sample.

3) Size: At least 10% of the sample was to be in the small (3) and 10% in the large size categories. Firms with only one employee or more than 10,000 employees were to be excluded.

4) Ownership: At least 10% of the firms were to have foreign control (4) and 10% state control (4).

5) Exporters: At least 10% of the firms were to be exporters (5), meaning that some significant share of their output is exported.

6) Location: At least 10% of firms were to be in the category "small city/countryside" (6).

7) BEEPS 2002 sample coverage: The BEEPS III survey instrument was to be administered to a given proportion of respondents who participated in BEEPS 2002 and had agreed in principle, at that time, to participate in future rounds of the BEEPS.

Enterprises, which began operations in 2002, 2003 and 2004, were to be excluded from the survey.

(1). Mining and quarrying (Section C: 10-14), Construction (Section F: 45), Manufacturing (Section D: 15-37) (2). Transportation, storage and communications (Section I: 60-64), Wholesale, retail, repairs (Section G: 50-52), Real estate, business services (Section K: 70-74), Hotels and restaurants (Section H: 55), Other community, social and personal activities (Section O: selected groups) (3). Small=2-49 employees, Medium=50-249, Large=250 - 9,999 (4). More than 50% shareholding (5). Exports 20% or more of total sales (6). Population under 50,000 inhabitants

8) The following sources of information were used to prepare the sample frame for Belarus: Statistical Institute; Yellow Pages.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The current survey instruments are available: - Screener and Main Questionnaires

The survey topics include firm characteristics, information about sales/suppliers, competition, infrastructure services, judiciary/law enforcement collaboration, security, government policies/laws/regulations, financing, overall business environment, bribery, capacity utilization, performance and investment activities, workforce composition.

Cleaning operations

Data entry and first checking and validation of the results were undertaken locally. Final checking and validation of the results were made at Synovate Head Office.

The shipments of the three major exporters of building blocks and bricks of cement, concrete or artificial stone, namely Belarus, Germany and the Netherlands, represented more than half of total export. Turkey (X tons) ranks next in terms of the total exports with a 7.5% share, followed by China (6.6%). The following exporters - Belgium (X tons), Canada (X tons), Russia (X tons), Poland (X tons), Estonia (X tons), Hungary (X tons), Ireland (X tons) and Slovakia (X tons) - together made up 17% of total exports.