The committee said that Uzbekistan produced industrial goods for 11.318 trillion soums (+6%) and consumer products – 3.686 trillion soums (+5.4%). The volume of agriculture production rose by 6.1% to 1.812 trillion soums.

Investments into fixed capital reached 3.818 trillion soums or grew by 4.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012, the committee added.

The volume of construction works rose by 6.6% to 1.845 trillion soums in the reporting period. Uzbekistan commissioned 1.712 million square meters of habitation (+4.3%).

Uzbekistan transported 267 million tonnes of freight (+4.6%) and 1.354 billion passengers (+4.3%) in January-March 2012.

Retail trade turnover made up 7.51 trillion soums or grew by 11% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012.

The volume of paid services reached 3.045 trillion soums, which grew by 20.1% year-on-year. Total volume of services grew by 12.5% to 10.8 billion soums in the reporting period.

Foreign trade turnover of Uzbekistan rose by 2% to US$5.908 billion. Export dropped by 7.4% to US$3.134 billion and import rose by 15.3% to US$2.774 billion. Foreign trade surplus made up US$360.3 million.