General information: directions, tasks and results

The Republic of Belarus implements a multi-vector foreign economic policy and actively participates in international integration processes. 

Belarus is an export-oriented country with developed industry and agriculture. 

In 2024, the foreign trade turnover of the Republic of Belarus reached 86 billion U.S. dollars, which is 3,7 percent more than in 2023. 

Exports of goods amounted to 40,3 billion dollars and increased by 1,2 percent compared to the previous year. 

The commodity structure of Belarusian export includes more than one thousand hundred commodity items at the level of four digits of the Common Commodity Nomenclature of the EAEU. The most important export positions are products of mechanical engineering, food, petrochemical industry, metallurgy. 

The basis of imports are products of mechanical engineering, petrochemical, food industry, metallurgy.

In 2024, Belarus exports its products to 161 countries. 

Russia, EAEU, CIS and EU countries are among Belarus' main export destinations. Belarus is expanding its presence in the markets of Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. In cooperation with its partners from the EAEU, Belarus is opening new markets of the "far arc" countries by concluding free trade agreements. 

In 2024, Belarus exported services worth 9.9 billion dollars, which is 14 percent more than in 2023.