About 97.7% of foreign trade turnover of Uzbekistan fell to share of Europe and Asia in the reporting period, the committee said.

Share of these continents in foreign trade turnover of Uzbekistan grew from 96.9% in January-September 2009 to 97.7% in 2010.

According to the committee, share of Europe in foreign trade of the country slipped from 59.6% in 2009 to 54.8 in 2010. Share of Asia rose from 37.3% to 42.9% in the reporting period.

Share of the American continent decreased from 2.8% in 2009 to 2% in 2010 in the structure of Uzbekistan’s foreign trade turnover. Share of the African continent remained at the level of 0.2%, Australia and Oceania – 0.1%.

Uzbekistan's foreign trade turnover reached US$21.844 billion in 2010 (+3%) in 2010, the Uzbekistan State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said. The trade turnover with the CIS states made up US$9.425 billion and other countries – US$12.42 billion.

The volume of exports of Uzbekistan made up US$13.045 billion and the volume of imports reached US$8.8 billion in 2010.

Structure of foreign trade of Uzbekistan by continents