Head of the department for forecasting and monitoring of foreign trade of the Foreign Trade Department at the Economic Development and Trade Ministry Serhiy Kovaliov has said about this, the press service of the Ministry informs.

"Even proceeding from this information, which we have for recent 10 months of 2013, no serious, radical changes took place in the exports structure. It is true that machine building and chemical industry reduced their share in the structure export by 2.3 percentage points and 0.4 percentage points respectively," the expert stressed.

He added that this year, the share of EU countries grew in exports by 2 percentage points to 26.6%, at the same time, the share of CIS countries reduced by 1 percentage point to 35.9%, as well as the share of African countries slightly reduced - by 0.6 percentage points to 7.6% in total export volumes of goods from Ukraine.

In addition, Kovaliov named 10 countries, on whose markets most products of Ukrainian exports were supplied: the Russian Federation - 24.7%, Turkey - 6.1%, China - 4.4%, Poland - 3.9%, Kazakhstan - 3.7%, Italy - 3.7%, Egypt - 3.5%, Belarus - 3.3%, India - 3.1% and Germany - 2.6%.

Ukrinform