Georgia’s foreign trade up 9.1% in first nine months of 2025

Georgia’s foreign trade turnover, excluding unorganised trade, rose 9.1% year-on-year to $18.5 billion in January–September 2025, according to the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).

Imports into the country amounted to $13.4 billion, up 9.7% on the January–September 2024 period, while exports grew by 7.7% to $5.2 billion, Caliber.Az reports per Georgian media.

The country’s trade deficit rose by 11%, totalling $8.2 billion.

Georgia exported a wide range of products, including copper ores and concentrates, ferroalloys, natural grape wines, spirits, mineral water, passenger cars, nitrogen fertilisers, pharmaceuticals, gold, timber, and various nuts.

Notable export growth was recorded for precious metal ores and concentrates, up 62.7%, sugar-containing mineral or carbonated waters, up 21.5%, passenger cars, up 13.7%, unprocessed or semi-processed gold, up 13.4%, nitrogen fertilisers, up 11.9%, and pharmaceuticals, up 7%. Conversely, exports of ferroalloys fell by 32.7%, natural grape wines by 11.5%, and spirits by 4.7%.

Key imports included crude oil and petroleum products, passenger vehicles, petroleum gas and gaseous hydrocarbons, unprocessed carbon steel rods, medicines, mobile phones, trucks, computers and related components, vaccines, and blood and immunological sera.

Among imports, the largest increases were seen in works of art such as paintings, drawings, and pastels, up an extraordinary 164,079.5%, medicines in packaging, up 10.3%, passenger cars, up 9.9%, and petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons, up 7%.

By contrast, imports of computers and related components fell 50.8%, unprocessed carbon steel rods 28.8%, trucks 24.4%, tobacco products 5.5%, and crude oil and petroleum products 1%.

Türkiye was Georgia’s top trading partner in the first nine months of 2025, with bilateral trade reaching $2.3 billion, accounting for 12.2% of Georgia’s total foreign trade. Other major partners included Azerbaijan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and the United Kingdom.

By Aghakazim Guliyev