Over the last week, that is, for the period from March 11 to 17, goods worth 3,400.3 billion soums were sold on all trading platforms of the Uzbek Commodity Exchange JSC, which is 49.6% more than the previous week . Of these, 62.3% of concluded transactions were made through exchange trading, and the remaining 37.7% were through e-commerce trading systems.

The total volume of transactions concluded with the participation of small businesses and private entrepreneurship amounted to 541.7 billion soums. As a result of electronic bidding for public procurement, the total savings of budgetary and corporate customers amounted to 232.0 billion soums.

Exchange trading

During the reporting period, commodity resources worth 2,119.1 billion soums were sold at open exchange trading, including:

Cement

Last week, 89,177.0 tons of cement were sold through exchange trading. The average daily volume of cement sales amounted to 17,835.0 thousand tons.

During the period under review, the daily average price for cement of all brands decreased from 538.6 thousand soums to 535.8 thousand soums per ton. An average of 68 buyers took part in exchange trading every day.

Liquefied gas

Last week, 11,116.0 tons of liquefied gas were supplied, of which 7,019.0 tons, or 63.1%, were sold. An average of 222 buyers took part in exchange trading every day.

During the period under review, the daily average price for liquefied gas decreased from 5,405.9 thousand soums to 5,188.9 thousand soums per ton.

Technical seeds

Last week, 48,461.0 tons of industrial seeds were put up for sale, of which 30,816.0 tons, or 63.6%, were sold.

During the period under review, the daily average price for technical seeds decreased from 3,259.7 thousand soums to 3,135.6 thousand soums per ton. An average of 20 buyers took part in exchange trading every day.

Source: DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY