In January, the country’s exports of telephones and components increased sharply by 68.9 per cent over the same month of last year to US$ 3.93 billion, accounted for 19.5 per cent of the country’s total export turnover.

The exports of telephones and components to China in the first month of this year increased by over 20 folds compared with the same period last year but decreased by 46.8 per cent over the previous month to $ 894.58 million.

China was the country’s biggest export market of telephones and components in the first month of this year, accounted for 22.7 per cent of the total.

It was followed by South Korea with $ 432.25 million, up by 88.3 per cent year – on – year; Austria - $ 381.37 million, up by 133.5 per cent; the U.A.E - $ 379.6 million, up by 66 per cent; and the U.S - $ 214.02 million, up by 3.5 per cent. 

The EU countries accounted for 23.9 per cent of the total with $ 940.17 million, up by 25.8 per cent compared with the same period last year; and the exports to the South East Asian countries reached $ 259.96 million, up by 36.2 per cent.   

In the first months of this year, the country’s exports of telephones and components to China increased sharply by 20 folds; to Cambodia – up by 287 per cent to $ 5.88 million; to the Philippines – up by 239 per cent to $ 42.6 million; to Colombia – up by 171 per cent to $ 28.56 million; to India – up by 149.6 per cent to $ 79.08 million; to Austria – up by 133.5 per cent to $ 381.37 million; and to Sweden – up by 124.4 per cent to $ 31.13 million.

However, the imports of telephones and components in January reached $ 1.58 billion, up by over 89 per cent compared with the same period last year but down by 15.3 per cent over the last month of 2017.

Market	January of 2018	January of 2018 vs. December of 2017 (+/- %)	January of 2018 vs. January of 2017 (+/- %)
Total	3,933,502,245	0.87	68.87
China	894,582,034	-46.77	1.960.28
South Korea	432,254,015	40.33	88.28
Austria	381,365,197	169.71	133.48
The U.A.E	379,464,811	88.33	66.06
The U.S	214,021,620	24.99	3.5
Britain	116,983,601	-16.64	32.19
Germany	114,184,415	-2.51	33.72
The Netherlands	107,626,043	5.37	25.56
Thailand	98,149,719	-17.82	54.41
Russia	88,575,083	21.11	40.95
Hong Kong	84,728,097	-31.96	-24.57
India	79,081,752	113.47	149.62
Spain	77,355,382	91.2	36.74
France	74,492,989	68.57	-6.06
Turkey	73,721,433	-12.97	114.11
Brazil	68,721,696	-3.7	8.15
Malaysia	53,311,573	53.53	32.5
Japan	51,045,013	18.61	45.55
Taiwan	45,633,626	87.22	43.43
The Philippines	42,600,541	113.09	238.97
Australia	37,708,670	4.76	11.67
Indonesia	36,338,161	117.53	-36.99
Israel	34,710,817	33.25	51.45
Sweden	31,132,639	8.6	124.4
Colombia	28,560,298	307.51	171.13
South Africa	26,331,696	201.7	11.19
Singapore	23,679,069	36.1	54.87
Ukraine	15,927,032	70.2	75.73
Slovakia	15,374,419	80.24	18.38
Portugal	15,150,848	160.62	31.51
New Zealand	8,943,673	30.15	7.73
Saudi Arabia	6,747,520	0.81	-21.12
Greece	6,045,446	-3.32	9.17
Cambodia	5,878,202	-15.81	287.18
Mexico	1,576,112	-32.65	-96.09
Italy	458,005	-56.47	-99.68