Imports of machinery and equipment in the Russian Federation for the period from January to October 2014 decreased by 8, 7% to 115, 02 billion compared with the figures for the same period last year, said the Federal customs service (FCS).
From non-CIS countries in January-October in the Russian Federation was imported machinery and equipment (with a wide range of equipment, including power and special equipment, building machinery, ships and aircraft) in the amount of 107, $ 9 billion, From the CIS - 7, $ 1 billion, lower than the same period in 2013 on 5, 6% and 39%, respectively, reports TASS. While Russia exported for the first ten months of 2014, machinery and equipment for almost $ 20 billion (down 7, 7% to January-October 2013, Of which in foreign countries - eleven, $ 6 billion, CIS - 8, $ 4 billion. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The EU and the US on the background of the progress of the Minsk agreements between Kiev and militias Donbass about stopping the fire entered against Russia penalties against financial, oil and defense industries.


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