Half Of Turkey's Exports Mainly To Six Countries

ANKARA - Turkey which continues to break records in exports, exported half of its products to six countries between January-August this year.
Turkey exports more than 15,000 products to 218 countries. The amount of Turkey's exports to Germany, the U.S., Britain, Italy, France and Spain in eight months reached nearly 14,4 billion dollars. This amount constituted 48.3 percent of total exports. The increase in exports to these countries has been 27.4 percent in January-August period when compared to the same period last year.
Meanwhile exports to ten countries to which Turkey exports most of its products increased by 29.9 percent and reached 17.58 billion dollars in January-August this year. Exports to these ten countries constituted 59 percent of total exports.
Here are the countries to which Turkey exported most of its products and increase in exports:

(Million dollars)
(Jan-Aug) (Percent)
2002 2003 Change
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1- Germany 3.708 4.801 29.4
2- U.S. 2.218 2.334 5.2
3- UK 1.850 2.292 23.8
4- Italy 1.432 2.076 45.0
5- France 1.394 1.742 24.9
6- Spain 698 1.155 65.4
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First six count.11.300 14.400 27.4
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7- Holland 592 935 57.9
8- Russia 650 977 50.3
9- Israel 547 695 27.0
10-Belgium 453 579 27.8
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TOTAL 13.542 17.586 29.9

(Öª) 14.09.2003