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title: "Turkey's Exports Fell By 9.8 Percent In January"
date: "2015-02-02 14:21:01"
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# Turkey's Exports Fell By 9.8 Percent In January
\- Turkey's monthly exports fell by 9.8 percent to 10.8 billion dollars in January, against in the same month of last year, according to the data released by Turkish Exporters Assembly, on Monday.
The fall in January pushed the annual exports gowth to 2.5 percent at the end of January, from 4.0 percent at the end of the previous month, with 156 billion dollars.
Leading exporter was the automotive sector with 1.73 billion dollars, followed by ready-wear sector with 1.39 billion dollars and chemicals sector with 1.2 billion dollars.
Hazelnuts exports rose by 61.5 percent in January, against in the same month of the year before, as the highest increase on monthly basis, followed by jewellary sector with 48.7 percent and automotive with 9.1 percent.
The largest markets of Turkesh exporters in January were Germany, Iraq, United Kingdom, Italy and the US, respectively. Exports to Germany fell by 12 percent, to Iraq by 16 percent, to UK by 1 percent and to Italy by 3 percent, while exports to US rose by 3 percent, over the same period.
The fastest growing market was Iran in January by 64 percent exports rise, followed by Syria with 21 percent and United Arabian Emirates with 18 percent, in January.
