Georgia Foreign Trade: 2024 Full Year and 2025 Snapshot

Sources: Attached official statistical summaries (Geostat / MoESD-style). Values are shown in USD million.

2025 Snapshot (January–September 2025)

Important: All 2025 figures in this section refer to January–September 2025 (9 months).

Key indicators

• Foreign trade turnover: USD 18545.0 million (+9.1% y/y).
• Exports: USD 5151.4 million (+7.7% y/y); Imports: USD 13393.7 million (+9.7% y/y).
• Trade deficit: USD 8242.3 million (44.4% of turnover). Exports accounted for 27.8% of turnover.
• Domestic exports: USD 2348.8 million (+7.5% y/y), representing 45.6% of total exports.
• Re-exports: USD 2802.6 million (+8% y/y).

Top trading partners by trade turnover (top 3)

• Türkiye — USD 2264.8 million
• USA — USD 2127.1 million
• Russia — USD 1898.5 million

Top export partners (top 3)

• Kyrgyzstan — USD 1080.5 million
• Kazakhstan — USD 658.5 million
• Russia — USD 543.1 million

Top export products (selected top 10 by value)

Note: Product values are taken from the attached summary’s export/re-export and domestic export breakdowns.

• Motor cars— USD 2003.9 million
• Passenger cars (re-export) — USD 2003.9 million
• Precious metal ores and concentrates — USD 276.2 million
• Wine — USD 189.1 million
• Spirituous beverages — USD 167.3 million
• Ferro-alloys — USD 152.9 million
• Non-alcoholic beverages — USD 128.1 million
• Nitrogenous fertilizers — USD 90.5 million
• Unworked gold — USD 86.4 million
• Hazelnuts — USD 82.5 million

Domestic export highlights (top items and dynamics)

• Precious metal ores and concentrates — USD 276.2 million (increase 62.7% y/y)
• Wine — USD 189.1 million (decrease 11.5% y/y)
• Spirituous beverages — USD 167.3 million (decrease 9.3% y/y)
• Ferro-alloys — USD 152.9 million (decrease 32.6% y/y)
• Non-alcoholic beverages — USD 128.1 million (increase 21.6% y/y)
• Nitrogenous fertilizers — USD 90.5 million (increase 10.6% y/y)
• Unworked gold — USD 86.4 million (increase 13.4% y/y)
• Hazelnuts — USD 82.5 million (increase 51.7% y/y)

 

Georgia–EU trade (January–September 2025)

Trade turnover with the EU increased by 9% to USD 3973.2 million (21% of Georgia’s total turnover). Exports increased by 56.8% to USD 612.1 million (11.9% of total exports). Imports increased by 4% to USD 3361.1 million (25% of total imports).

Domestic exports to the EU increased by 71% to USD 537.2 million.

Georgia–CIS trade (January–September 2025)

Trade turnover with CIS countries increased by % to USD  million (% of total turnover). Exports increased by 8.1% to USD 1013.1 million (28% of total exports). Imports decreased by % to USD  million (% of total imports).

 

2024 Full-Year Statistics (Updated)

Key indicators

• Foreign trade turnover: USD 23435.3 million (+8% y/y).
• Exports: USD 6560.4 million (+7.8% y/y); Imports: USD 16874.9 million (+8.1% y/y).
• Trade deficit: USD 10314.5 million (44% of turnover). Exports accounted for 28% of turnover.
• Re-exports were a major driver: re-exports increased by 10.2% to USD 3,553.3 million and accounted for 54.2% of total exports.
• Domestic exports increased by 5% to USD 3,007.1 million (45.8% of total exports).

Top trading partners by trade turnover (top 3)

• Türkiye — USD 3228.4 million
• Russia — USD 2531.3 million
• USA — USD 2188.3 million

Top export partners (top 3)

• Kyrgyzstan — USD 1287.4 million
• Kazakhstan — USD 859.9 million
• Azerbaijan — USD 724.5 million

Top export products (selected top 10 by value)

Note: Product values are consolidated from the attached summary’s domestic export and re-export breakdowns.

• Passenger cars (re-export) — USD 2426.8 million
• Ferro-alloys — USD 321.9 million
• Wine  — USD 274.7 million
• Spirituous beverages — USD 250.2 million
• Precious metal ores and concentrates — USD 237.5 million
• Mineral Water — USD 163.7 million
• Unworked Gold — USD 104.7 million
• Medicaments (in measured doses) — USD 104.1 million
• Hazelnuts and other nuts — USD 103.8 million
• Petroleum products — USD 74.7 million

Domestic export growth drivers (selected)

• Precious metal ores and concentrates — USD 237.5 million (increase 263.5% y/y)
• Ferro-alloys — USD 321.9 million (increase 78.2% y/y)
• Wine — USD 274.7 million (increase 6.6% y/y)
• Mineral Water — USD 163.7 million (increase 24.5% y/y)
• Spirituous beverages — USD 250.2 million (increase 54.6% y/y)
• Unworked Gold — USD 104.7 million (increase 18% y/y)
• Hazelnuts and other nuts — USD 103.8 million (increase 21% y/y)

 

Georgia–EU trade (2024)

Trade turnover with the EU increased by 13.9% to USD 5164.2 million (22% of total turnover). Exports decreased by 18.6% to USD 573.6 million (8.7% of total exports). Imports decreased by % to USD  million (% of total imports).

The decline in exports to the EU was driven by a sharp reduction in copper ore exports (as noted in the summary).

Georgia–CIS trade (2024)

Trade turnover with CIS countries increased by % to USD  million (% of total turnover). Exports increased by 12.7% to USD 4
527.2 million (69% of total exports). Imports decreased by % to USD  million (% of total imports).

Re-exports dominated exports to CIS countries (over 70% of exports to CIS in the summary).

 

 

 

Georgia Foreign Trade Turnover 2020

Georgia’s foreign trade turnover of 2020 decreased by 14.8% compared to the same period last year, amounting to USD 11347.7 million, according to data released by the National Statistics Office (Geostat). Exports decreased by 12% year-on-year to USD 3342.1 million, while imports were down by 15.9%, reaching USD 8005.6 billion. Meanwhile, the trade deficit equaled USD 4663.4 million in 2020, decreased by 18%. 

In 2020 the share of the top ten trading partners by trade turnover amounted to 70.4 percent. Turkey remained Georgia’s largest trading partner with USD 1597.5 million in 2020, followed by Russia and China with USD 1328.2 million and USD 1185 million, respectively.

In 2020 the share of the top ten trading partners by exports in the total exports of Georgia amounted to 75.9 percent. The top partners were China (USD 476.3 million), Azerbaijan (USD 441.3 million) and Russia (USD 441.1 million). It is worth noting, that Georgia have 113% increase on export with China in 2020. 

 

Georgia-EU Trade Turnover 2020

Georgia-EU foreign trade turnover of 2020 decreased by 18% compared to the same period last year, amounting to USD 2638 million, constituting 23% of total Georgia's trade turnover. 

• Exports decreased by 12% year-on-year to 717 USD million constituting 21% of Georgia's total export. (2019 - 22%)
• Imports were down by 20%, reaching USD 1921 million constituting 24% of Georgia's total import. (2019 - 25%)

 

Georgia-CIS countries Trade Turnover 2020

Georgia-CIS countries foreign trade turnover of 2020 decreased by 13% compared to the same period last year, amounting to USD 3901 million, constituting 34% of total Georgia's trade turnover. 

• Exports decreased by 26% year-on-year to 1509 USD million constituting 45% of Georgia's total export. 
• Imports decreased by 2%, reaching USD 2392 million accounting for 30% of Georgia's total import.

 

Georgia-China Trade Turnover 2020

Georgia-China foreign trade turnover of 2020 increased by 9% compared to the same period last year, amounting to USD 1185 million, constituting 10% of total Georgia's trade turnover. 

• Exports increased by 113% year-on-year to 476.3 USD million constituting 14% of Georgia's total export. 
• Imports were down by 18%, reaching USD 708.8 million constituting 9% of Georgia's total import.

 

Georgia Foreign Trade Turnover on AGRIPRODUCTS 2020

The export of Georgian agricultural products accounted for USD 942.2 million in 2020, 6% increase compared to last year. 

The largest Exporting partners of Georgia were:

• Russia - USD 287 million
• EU - USD 163 million
• Azerbaijan - USD 100 million
• Ukraine - USD 93 million

The top exported Agriculture goods were:

• Georgian wine - 22%
• spirituous beverages- 14%
• Mineral and freshwater - 12%
• Nuts - 10%
• Non-Alcoholic drinks - 3%

 

MAJOR COMMODITY GROUPS BY EXPORTS 2020

In 2020 copper ores and concentrates reclaimed the first place in the list of top export items, equaling USD 729.4 million or 21.8 percent of total exports. The exports of motor cars(re-export) totaled USD 404.1 million and their share in the total exports amounted to 12.1 percent. The Ferro-alloys exports occupied the third place standing at USD 247.3 million and constituting 7.4 percent of the total exports. These commodity groups followed by wine of fresh grapes – USD 210.2 million; spirituous beverages – USD 132.2 million; waters, natural or artificial mineral and aerated waters – USD 116.5 million; medicaments put up in measured doses – USD 99 million; gold – USD 97.5 million; hazelnuts and other nuts – USD 94 million; precious metal ores and concentrates – USD 89.9 million;

 

For more detailed information, please visit the following link: https://www.geostat.ge/media/35820/External-Merchandise-Trade-of-Georgia-in-2020.pdf