Automotive exports was on the top in April

It was recorded that 2.7 billion dollars worth of exports were made in the automotive sector, which decreased by 1.8 percent compared to the same period last year. The share of the automotive sector in Turkey's exports was realized as 13.9.

here has been an 11% increase in the automotive sector in the first four months of the year. During this period, a total of 11 billion 311 million dollars worth of exports were made.

Baran Çelik, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OIB, said, "Although our exports to Germany, our largest market, decreased, we recorded a significant increase of 31 percent to France and 19 percent to Italy."

The highest amount of exports in the supply industry was made with Russia

In the supply industry, the highest exports were made to Germany with a 6 percent decrease, while exports to Italy increased by 0.2 percent, France by 10 percent, Russia by 144 percent and the United States by 34 percent.

In passenger cars, exports increased by 65 percent to France, 75 percent to Italy, 11 percent to Germany, 14 percent to Israel, 29 percent to Slovenia, 4 percent to Spain, 29 percent to the United Kingdom, and 23 percent to Poland.

In Motor Vehicles for Carrying Goods, exports to Slovenia decreased by 34 percent, Italy by 23 percent, Spain by 8 percent, while exports to the United Kingdom increased by 19 percent, France by 3 percent and Belgium by 8 percent.

A 5 percent increase to EU countries

In April, exports to the European Union countries, which had a 70 percent share in exports on a country group basis, increased by 5 percent to 1 billion 877 million USD. Other European Countries ranked second among country groups with a share of 11 percent. Exports to this country group decreased by 5 percent. Exports to the Commonwealth of Independent States increased by 50 percent.