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[halil]

Total TRNC imports last year were 1 billion 241 million dollars, and exports 71 million 73 thousand dollars, according to the figures released by the Trade Department.

It announced a trade deficit of 1 billion 170 million dollars.

According to the figures, a 26% drop was recorded in imports and a fall of 15% was observed in exports compared to previous year.

More than 67% of the imports was made from Turkey, which was followed by third countries with 32.3%.

TRNC total exports in 2009 declined 13% compared to the previous year according to the figures released which include 7 million 615 thousand dollars worth of exports made to South Cyprus through the Green Line Regulation.
Turkey had the largest share of TRNC’s exports with % 54.1 and it was followed by third countries with 45.9%.

Vehicles, fuel oil, ready-made clothes, medicine, reinforcing iron, furniture and furniture parts have the biggest share of imports while dairy products, citrus and raki are on top of the lists of products having the biggest share in TRNC exports.

[Gasman]

Dairy products and citrus surprises me as you cannot buy a decent bottle of fresh milk hardly anywhere there (if you can find it it is usually 'off') and hardly any eatery establishments serve FRESH orange juice. They serve that awful concentrate stuff. The poor Brits staying in hotels are often seen bringing their own into the breakfast room lol!

[Epiktitos]

wow - a trade deficit of $1.2 billion...who's lending all that money to finance this deficit, year after year? And people think that Greece has a debt crisis!

[Viewpoint]

Ho so Greece is ok then?

[runaway]

Ho so Greece is ok then?

RIP GR

[miltiades]

Don't particularly give a toss about Greece . Cyprus is ok though !!
As you can see the indeginous Cypriots care mostly , if not exclusively , about Cyprus unlike you two , VP and R/A who , being foreigners , care about Turkey !!

[Oracle]

So the Turks take over a territory which accounted for 70 percent of Cyprus' GDP, and should have been producing nearly $30Billion, and reduce it to a deficit of $1.2Billion.

Great all round success story by Turkish standards ...

[Gasman]

Great all round success story by Turkish standards ...

Or you could say that the sanctions imposed on them were bringing about the desired result?

[Oracle]

Great all round success story by Turkish standards ...

Or you could say that the sanctions imposed on them were bringing about the desired result?

Or you could ask how are they benefiting by destroying the economy of 200,000 GCs? The economy which does not belong to Turk-TCs.

Criminals should not prosper!

[Oracle]

Don't particularly give a toss about Greece . Cyprus is ok though !!
As you can see the indeginous Cypriots care mostly , if not exclusively , about Cyprus unlike you two , VP and R/A who , being foreigners , care about Turkey !!

What do you mean you don't care about Greece? A fellow EU member country who has crippled herself financially to keep the Turkish belligerents at bay!

According to Tzavella, Turkey also threatens the security of Greek territories.

“We, as Greek politicians, cannot see how Turkey can keep a threat of war against Greece in the 21st century. This threat has caused my country a lot of defense expenditures,” she said. “If Turkey wants to improve its relationship with Greece, the Parliament should withdraw casus belli against Greece. We all consider it one of the hottest issues between the two countries. We take it very seriously.” Casus belli is a Latin term referring to justification for acts of war and refers to offenses or threats directly against a country.

Turkey still tops the list of countries perceived as a threat by Greece, whose government’s defense expenditures have pushed the limits of its state budget. A Turkish-Greek dogfight over the Aegean Sea cost 10,000 euros for each fighter jet. Because of this security dilemma, Greece has increased its defense expenditures to $76 billion over the past decade.

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