Everyone remembers the sharp rise
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 5:16 am
in the price of buckwheat at the end of 2010 – beginning of 2011. Like any mass market phenomenon, this rise was accompanied by rumors and unverified versions. And how is it explained from the point of view of official statistics on foreign trade?
Buckwheat is listed in our code 1008 “Buckwheat, millet and canary seed” (code of the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the CIS or TN VED CIS, in the international classification – Harmonized System or HS).
In 2010, global exports under code 1008 grew by 17% (in value terms), imports by 15%. The main india cell phone number list trading partner for Kazakhstan under this code is Russia. Russian exports in 2010 increased by 35% (to $2,160 million), and imports by only 7% (to $356 million). Thus, Russia is a net exporter, restoring its position after the decline in exports in 2008-2009.
The following changes occurred in the structure of Russian exports under code 1008 in 2010:
exports to Azerbaijan increased by 8.2 times (to $761 million);
exports to Armenia and Austria have more than doubled, and to Lithuania almost doubled (up to $470 million);
how Türkiye emerged as an export market (immediately up to $112 million);
exports to Belgium resumed (up to $272 million);
exports to China decreased by 63%;
and exports to Kazakhstan fell sharply – from $428 million to $90 million according to the Customs Control Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, or from $437 million to $28 million according to the International Trade Centre.
Buckwheat is listed in our code 1008 “Buckwheat, millet and canary seed” (code of the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the CIS or TN VED CIS, in the international classification – Harmonized System or HS).
In 2010, global exports under code 1008 grew by 17% (in value terms), imports by 15%. The main india cell phone number list trading partner for Kazakhstan under this code is Russia. Russian exports in 2010 increased by 35% (to $2,160 million), and imports by only 7% (to $356 million). Thus, Russia is a net exporter, restoring its position after the decline in exports in 2008-2009.
The following changes occurred in the structure of Russian exports under code 1008 in 2010:
exports to Azerbaijan increased by 8.2 times (to $761 million);
exports to Armenia and Austria have more than doubled, and to Lithuania almost doubled (up to $470 million);
how Türkiye emerged as an export market (immediately up to $112 million);
exports to Belgium resumed (up to $272 million);
exports to China decreased by 63%;
and exports to Kazakhstan fell sharply – from $428 million to $90 million according to the Customs Control Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, or from $437 million to $28 million according to the International Trade Centre.