According to the UZEX News newspaper , from January 1 to September 30 of this year, transactions worth 72,411.2 billion soums were concluded at the Uzbek Republican Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange.
The main part of exchange trade turnover consists of wheat 9.7% (6,894.2 billion), diesel fuel 9.4% (6,686 billion), copper 9.4% (6,665.7 billion), motor gasoline 8% (5,694.7 billion), mineral fertilizers 7.5% (5,346.1 billion) and sugar 5.5% (3,921.1 billion).
Over nine months, a total of 7,611 sellers sold their products and 18,511 businesses participated as buyers.
At the same time, 2,579 types of goods were sold at the auction and more than 451 thousand transactions were concluded. The bulk of transactions are in motor gasoline (117,666 transactions), flour (106,387 transactions), cement (26,060 transactions), sugar (24,065 transactions), as well as mineral fertilizers (22,761 transactions).
Flour also leads in terms of the number of buyers (6,009).
However, the dynamics of price growth for some goods remains high. In particular, liquefied gas – 56%, soda ash – 43%, technical sulfur – 35% and polymers – 18%.
Due to the increase in prices compared to the starting prices, sellers received additional income in the amount of 3,014.4 billion soums.
The bulk of the additional income comes from such product items as liquefied gas, industrial seeds, polymer products, sheet glass and mineral fertilizers.
At a recent press conference at the Agency of Information and Mass Communications, representatives of the exchange noted a decrease in prices for a number of commodity items.
In particular, during 9 months of 2023, the average exchange price of technical sulfur decreased by 3 times relative to its maximum value, the price of coal, cottonseed oil, industrial seeds and urea – by 31%, liquefied gas – by 23%, compound feed – by 20% , polypropylene – by 15%, cotton fiber and flour – by 14%, polyethylene – by 12%, sugar – by 11% and ammonium nitrate – by 10%.
There was no mention of liquefied gas.
V. Novikov
