Uzbekistan's international trade topped $31.3 billion in January-May 2025. This is by $4.93 billion or 15% more than in the same period in 2024.

Where, the exports stood at $14.82 billion (+31.1%), and the imports was $16.49 billion (+3.7%). The trade deficit decreased to $1.68 billion.

During this period, the bulk of international trade was with China (17.2%), Russia (15.4%), Kazakhstan (5.7%), Turkey (3.5%) and South Korea (2.3%).

In the first 5 months, the volume of trade turnover with major partners decreased with Turkey, South Korea, the USA, Turkmenistan, Italy and Lithuania. The total trade volume with countries such as China, Afghanistan, France, Germany, India, and the UAE increased significantly.

Exports

6.492 billion dollars (+54.8%) worth of gold was sold. This accounts for 43.8% of total exports. Also, industrial goods (10.1%), food products and live animals (6.2%), chemicals (5.3%), mineral fuels (4%) and various manufactured goods (3.6%) also had a significant share in the exports structure.

Russia (10.8 percent), China (5.1 percent), Afghanistan (3.5 percent), Kazakhstan (3.5 percent), Turkey (2.9 percent), France (2.7 percent), UAE (1.5 percent), Tajikistan (1.4 percent), Kyrgyz Republic (1.4 percent) and Pakistan (1.1 percent) were the main export destination.

$288 million worth of gas was sold in January-May, which is by 62.7% more than the same period last year. In addition, $212 million worth of oil and oil products (-6.2 percent), $95 million worth of electricity (+72.6 percent) were exported.

About $102 million worth of cars and spare parts were sold. This is by 26.9 percent less than in 2024.

Imports

machinery and transport equipment (33.6 percent), industrial goods (16.1 percent), and chemicals and similar products (12.9 percent) accounted for the bulk of imports. 2/3 of total imports were from 7 countries:

• China - 28.1 percent;

• Russia - 19.6 percent;

• Kazakhstan - 7.7 percent;

• South Korea - 4.2 percent;

• Turkey - 4.1 percent;

• Germany - 3.1 percent;

• India - 2.7 percent.

Gas imports decreased sharply. In 5 months, $285 million worth of gas was purchased, which is 44 percent of the previous year's figure. Automobile imports also decreased significantly. In particular, cars worth $1.245 billion (-14.8 percent) were imported during January-May. In turn, the import of car parts and accessories increased by 31% reaching $671 million.