Udaltsov: the message of Lithuania on trade with Russia - " double accounting "
The Russian Ambassador in Vilnius Alexander Udaltsov in an interview Last news called "double accounting" to the authorities of the Baltic Republic on the growth of trade between Lithuania And Russia after the introduction of restrictions on imports of a number of products in the Russian Federation from the EU.
first USA, Canada, European Union And Norway has accused the Russian Federation in the background to the conflict in the Donbass, relatively Russia imposed punishment, although she has stated many times That is not a party to domestic conflict. Moscow in response to punishment for a year banned the import of some food items from countries that have imposed punishment.
Deputy Minister of Finance of Lithuania Algimantas Rimkunas on January 20 economic conference in Vienna said That trade between Lithuania And Russia after the introduction of Moscow restrictions increased by 17%, as Russia has increased its imports from the Baltic Republic of other items, including machinery.
"When calculating the trade performance of the Russian Federation And Lithuania apply different methods. And, anyway, even taking into account this factor, the General negative trends in trade and economic sphere traced by the analysis of the data of Department of statistics of Lithuania ", - said the Ambassador.
He said That, according to the Lithuanian experts in the field of statistics, as of November 30, the share of Russia, which remains the largest foreign trade partner of Lithuania, accounts for about 21% of foreign trade turnover in Lithuania. In comparison with the comparable period of 2013 Russian-Lithuanian trade declined nearly 20%, imports from Russia decreased by 28, 4%, and exports by 2, 9%.
"As for the above high-ranking representative of the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania data, then, apparently, here the story is, as they say," double-entry bookkeeping is one, apparently, for internal use and one for external, " said Sergei Udaltsov.
According to the present Ambassador to the Russian official statistics, total trade turnover between Russia And Lithuania in comparison with the comparable period of 2013 decreased by 23%, was 5, 2 billion, and among them, the export - 24, 2%, and imports by 7, 8%.
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