Turkey Exporters Assembly (TIM) President İsmail Gülle, in a statement to the AA correspondent, stated that July exports were 15 billion 12 million dollars, down 5.8 percent compared to the previous year.
Noting that everyone knows the world conjuncture, Gülle said, “In an environment where world trade is shrinking and affected by nearly 10 percent, it is extremely important to continue our exports at these figures and to take them rapidly towards pre-pandemic figures. In terms of us, we were pleased with the performance of some of our sectors.”
Stating that the automotive sector is still the first with a loss of 24 percent compared to the previous year, Gülle noted that the second is ready-to-wear clothing:
“During the pandemic period, very intense orders came to Turkey. Our chemical sector is in third place, there is a slight decline there. Their rapid recovery and upward movement, especially due to the increase in world trade in the steel sector, will quickly lead us to the monthly figures of 16-17 billion dollars that we target for our exports, especially with new orders and new capacities.
The European Union (EU) is our biggest market. It is the most intense place we export to. Of course, in this period when the whole of Europe is affected, we see that our exports are affected on a country-by-country basis. America, where we have never decreased our exports without interruption, continues with a very important 17 percent increase. We see that our exports with Azerbaijan and Ukraine have continued to increase for 7 months without ever decreasing. In a very important data, we see that the ratio of our exports to imports has reached 84.5 percent with an increase of 1.9 percent.
This is a pleasing event for us, we are rapidly continuing our efforts to ensure that our exports meet imports, that domestic products are preferred instead of imports, that imports decrease in a controlled manner and that our exports increase and foreign trade balance and foreign trade surplus. During the pandemic process, we see that there have been very serious increases in our ready-to-wear and food sectors. It is important that our ready-to-wear sector has rapidly risen to the second place, especially that all sectors in our food sector are on the rise. We see that our other sectors also support this.”
“There is an increase in exports in 16 out of 27 sectors”
Gülle noted that there was an increase in exports in 16 of the 27 sectors that are important to them and said, “We see that we are approaching the highest export figures on a monthly basis. We see that our exports to 96 countries in the world have increased. We see that our exports to China have increased by over 40 percent, these are positive data.”
Stating that the parity effect reflected positively on exports in this process, Gülle stated that it was in a negative direction until June, and that it had a negative effect on parity of approximately 500 million dollars.
Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/tim-baskani-gulle-turkiye-pandemiye-ragmen-yogun-siparis-aldi/1931010
