Belarusian foreign trade balance is -1 million 70 million USD

Belarusian foreign trade balance totaled minus 1 billion 70 million USD at the end of the first half of this year.
The Ministry of Statistics explains the growth of the debit balance of the foreign energy trade by the fact that the price of Russian gas was doubled.

One more reason is the decrease of oil supplies. In the first half of 2006 the oil was supplied for the sum of 326, 4 million USD in compassion with only 23.9 million USD in the first half of 2007. 

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