Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover reached US$57.4 billion in January–August 2026, an increase of US$4 billion, or 7.6%, compared with the same period last year, according to the National Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan.
Exports declined by 3.4% to US$22.9 billion, while imports increased by 16.3% to US$34.5 billion. As a result, Uzbekistan recorded a foreign trade deficit of US$11.7 billion.
Exports of non-monetary gold fell by 66.3%, from US$8.3 billion to US$2.8 billion. Its share of total exports declined from 35.2% to 12.3%. At the same time, exports of goods excluding gold increased by 28.7% to US$11.5 billion.
Exports of services rose by 33.8% to US$8.5 billion, accounting for 37.4% of total exports. More than half of this amount, 54.1%, came from travel services, or tourism, at US$4.6 billion. Transport services generated US$2.6 billion, while telecommunications, computer and information services brought in US$716.4 million.
Among goods, exports of various manufactured articles recorded the largest increase, rising by 88.1% to US$2.1 billion. Exports of manufactured goods grew by 25.6% to US$3.4 billion, chemicals by 32.3% to US$1.8 billion, and machinery and transport equipment by 43% to US$899.8 million. Food exports remained at last year’s level of US$1.8 billion. Exports of petroleum products increased by 46.3%, while natural gas exports declined by 34.8%.
Uzbekistan exported US$2.1 billion worth of textiles, up 26.9% from a year earlier. Textiles accounted for 9.4% of total exports, with finished textile products making up 51.4% and yarn 32.2%.
Exports of fruit and vegetable products declined by 6.6% in value terms to US$1.18 billion and by 1.4% in volume terms to 1.44 million tonnes. They accounted for 5.2% of total exports. Fruit exports fell from US$416.9 million to US$384 million, while vegetable exports increased from US$168.6 million to US$203.4 million. Onion exports amounted to US$91.3 million, while peach exports reached US$114.7 million.
The largest buyers of Uzbekistan’s goods and services were Russia, with US$3.2 billion, or 14% of exports, followed by China with US$2 billion, or 8.7%; Afghanistan with US$1.2 billion, or 5.4%; Kazakhstan with US$1 billion, or 4.5%; and France with US$927.4 million, or 4.1%.
Imports of goods increased by US$4.3 billion to US$30 billion, while imports of services grew by 14% to US$4.6 billion.
Machinery and transport equipment accounted for the largest share of imports at US$11.3 billion, up 17.3%, or 32.6% of total imports. Imports of passenger cars increased by 72.6% to US$1.1 billion, while imports of telecommunications equipment rose by 78.5% to US$1.1 billion. At the same time, imports of machinery for specific industries declined by 17.5%.
Food imports increased by 39.3% to US$3.7 billion. Grain imports rose by 58.9% to US$967.4 million, while meat imports increased by 34.2% to US$677.4 million. Imports of gasoline grew by 48.6%, while diesel fuel imports declined by 12.3%. Imports of liquefied gas increased 3.5-fold. Imports of medicines and pharmaceutical products remained almost unchanged at US$1.3 billion.
The main suppliers were China, with US$11.2 billion, or 32.4% of imports, Russia with US$6 billion, or 17.4%, and Kazakhstan with US$2.7 billion, or 7.9%. Overall, Uzbekistan imported goods and services from more than 160 countries.
Uzbekistan traded with more than 200 countries during the period. China remained its largest trading partner, with bilateral trade increasing by 30.2% to US$13.2 billion, accounting for 23% of total foreign trade.
Trade turnover with Russia increased by 9.7% to US$9.2 billion, while trade with Kazakhstan rose by 23.4% to US$3.7 billion.
Trade with Afghanistan increased by 41% to US$1.4 billion. Turnover with Hong Kong increased more than tenfold, from US$93.9 million to US$980.1 million. By contrast, trade with Germany and India declined by 1.9% and 5.2%, respectively.
