In the January-May period of this year, Ukraine exported 18.77 million mt of iron ore, up 13.8 percent, worth a total of $926.09 million, down 44.1 percent, both on year-on-year basis, according to the data released by State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
In terms of value, the exports mostly went to China (46.04 percent), to Poland (10.25 percent) and to the Czech Republic (10.55 percent).
Meanwhile, in the first five months of this year Ukraine imported 934,085 mt of iron ore, down 34.4 percent, worth a total of $45.995 million, down 62.8 percent, both on year-on-year basis. The main supplier of iron ore to Ukraine in the given period was Russia, which supplied 99.98 percent of the total import volume.