Last week, 44 deals were concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan (SCRMET). Business representatives from the UAE, the US, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan purchased petroleum road bitumen from the state-owned company ‘Türkmennebit’, as well as liquefied gas produced at the ‘Türkmennebit’, ‘Türkmengaz’, and ‘Türkmenhimiýa’ enterprises. This was reported by the online publication ‘Turkmenistan: Golden age’.

In addition, flannel products, Portland cement and licorice root extract were sold for foreign currency. The main buyers of these products were companies from the UAE, Turkey and Uzbekistan. The total volume of export transactions exceeded $32.9 million.

On the domestic market, Turkmen entrepreneurs purchased terry products, cotton fabrics and yarn, cotton lint, polypropylene, base oil, petroleum bitumen, packaging film (from ‘Türkmennebit’) and technical carbon (from ‘Türkmenhimiýa’). The total value of domestic transactions amounted to over 78.1 million manats.