In January-March 2015 exports of goods by Ukraine amounted to $9.5 billion, while imports - $9.2 billion, he State Fiscal Service of Ukraine’s press service has said, with reference to tentative data.

The European Union amounted to 35% of total exports, the CIS countries - 18% of exports. Among countries the largest amount of goods was exported to Russia (11%), Turkey and China (7% each), Egypt and Italy (6% each) and Poland (5%).

The largest sums of duties were paid from transactions to export scrap ferrous metal, remelting scrap ingots (their share of the total duty paid was 76.3%), cattle (11.4%) and flax seeds (6.8%).

The service said that the European Union amounted to 41% of total imports to Ukraine and the CIS – 25%.

Import transactions were mainly carried out with Russia (18%), China (12%), Germany (11%), Belarus (6%) and Poland (5%).

The largest payments to the national budget from imports were provided by crude oil and fuel (18.4%), passenger cars and other motor vehicles (4.4%), coal and anthracite (4.1%), insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, weedkillers and disinfectants (3.5%).