ANKARA — Turkish consumer goods exports increased by 10.5 percent, reaching $21.3 billion in the first four months of 2014.
According to data compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute, TurkStat, consumer goods represented 39.5 percent of total Turkish exports, reaching $21.3 billion from January to April, up from $19.2 billion for the same period last year.
The majority of consumer exports were in fact "semi-durable goods", i.e. products with one-year durability, such as clothes. They amounted to $5.2 billion. They were followed by "refined and unrefined consumer goods" at $4.7 billion and "non-durables", such as food, at $3.4 billion.
In total, Turkish exports reached $54 billion for the first four months of 2014.
Germany was the first destination for Turkish consumer goods receiving $2.5 billion worth, followed by Iraq at $1.9 billion and the UK at $1.2 billion.
Meanwhile, at $9.15 billion, Turkey's consumer goods imports decreased by 3.2 percent from January to April of 2014.
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