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Latvias beer exports amounted to 5,695 thousand litres in January September 2008, the Baltic Course published the official statistics on November, 14.
The volume exported during the period demonstrated a drastic decrease of 50.1% from the results published after the first nine months last year.
57.4 percent of the beer exports went to the EU countries (to Lithuania 44.4%, Estonia 8.7%, Ireland 2.0%). Noticeable volume of beer was exported to Russia 39.3%.
Beer import in Latvia totalled 23,700 thousand litres, 4% less than in January September, 2007.
Beer was mainly imported from Estonia 30.4 %, Lithuania 27.5%, less from Czech Republic 9.0%. Some part of the beer was imported also from Russia 15.6% of total beer imports.
14 November, 2008
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