According to provisional data published by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) produced in the cooperation with the Ministry of Customs and Trade, in September 2014 exports were $13.66 billion, and imports were $20.59 billion, a 4.6 percent increase a 0.2 percent decrease compared with September 2013.In the same month, the foreign trade deficit decreased by 8.4 percent from $7.56 billion to $6.925 billion.In September 2014, exports coverage of imports was 66.4 percent, a slight increase from the 63.3 percent of September 2013.Seasonal and calendar-adjusted exports increased by 4.8 percent, while imports slid by 1 percent compared with the previous month.Calendar-adjusted exports increased by 1.4 percent, while imports trailed 4.1 percent compared with September 2013.As compared with the same month of the previous year, exports to the EU-28 increased by 7.1 percent from $5.603 billion to $6.2 billion. The proportion of EU countries was 43.9 percent in September 2014, while it was 42.9 percent in September 2013.In September 2014, the main partner country for exports was Germany with a $1.321 billion share in trade. Germany was followed by the United Kingdom ($921 million), Iraq ($911 million) and the U.S. ($602 million).In September 2014, the top country for Turkey's imports was China ($2.318 billion), records for imports range from Russia ($2.25 billion), Germany ($1.859 billion) and the U.S. ($1.71 billion).