Georgia's foreign trade deficit with Russia grows 1.7% in 2025

TBILISI. Jan 20 (Interfax) - Trade between Georgia and Russia increased 6.3% to $2.69 billion in 2025, the National Statistics Office of Georgia said on its website.

Georgian exports increased 10.3% to $749.3 million over the year, while imports from Russia grew 4.9% to $1.94 billion. Georgia's negative trade balance with Russia amounted to $1.19 billion, up 1.7%.

In the commodity structure of Georgia's exports to Russia, wine shipments fell 6.5% in value terms to $170.7 million, exports of other alcoholic beverages totaled $157.9 million (up 2.1%), mineral water exports reached $71 million (down 7.7%) and fruit and vegetable exports totaled $50.3 million (up 1.9-fold).

In the structure of imports from Russia, supplies of oil and petroleum products fell 8% to $477.7 million, while Georgia imported 693,600 tonnes of these products from Russia, down 0.6%. Imports of gaseous hydrocarbons from Russia grew 14.1% to $206.4 million or 13.9% in weight terms to 741,400 tonnes, wheat and meslin 35.1% to $102.3 million and vegetable oil 27.6% to $56.9 million. Imports of "crude oil and petroleum products" from Russia increased 16.5-fold in 2025 to $95.8 million and 21.5-fold in weight terms to 225,300 tonnes.

Russia was Georgia's third largest export market in volume in 2025, after Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. It ranked fourth among all the countries from which Georgia imported, after the U.S., Turkey and China.

Trade turnover between Georgia and Russia amounted to $2.53 billion in 2024, up 5.4%. Georgian exports over the year grew 3.7% to $681.5 million, while imports from Russia rose 6% to $1.85 billion. Georgia's foreign trade deficit with Russia totaled $1.17 billion, up 7.4%.