The total amount of transactions concluded in foreign currency at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan over the past week exceeded $4.908 million, Turkmenistan’s Golden Age news outlet reported on Saturday.
For foreign currency, businesses based in the China’s Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan purchased aviation and lighting kerosene, and diesel fuel produced at the Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries.
In addition, companies from Russia, the U.S., China, the U.A.E., Turkey and Azerbaijan purchased cotton yarn, roots and rhizomes of licorice for foreign currency.
For manat funds, businesses from the U.A.E., Scotland, Pakistan and Kazakhstan purchased cotton yarn for over 26.984 million manats.
State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan registered a total of 27 transactions last week.