In October, imports of margarine fell by 5.8% or 323 tons, compared to September, to 5,205 tons.

This was reported in a statement of the State Statistics Committee, text of which Ukrainian News has obtained.

Expenditures for the import of margarine rose by 1.4% or USD 0.201 million to USD 14.120 million in October.

In October 2008, margarine imports fell by 10.2% or 593 tons compared to October 2007.

In January-October 2008, imports of margarine fell by 5.8% or 2,341 tons compared to January-October 2007, to 38,171 tons for USD 92.315 million.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, in September, imports of margarine fell by 6.4% or 379 tons, compared to August, to 5,528 tons.

In 2007, imports of margarine rose by 37.3% or 13,299 tons compared to 2006, to 48,956 tons for USD 82.354 million.

Margarine imports in October:

	October 2008		September 2008		October 2007
	thousand tons	USD million	thousand tons	USD million	thousand tons	USD million
Total	5.205	14.120	5.528	13.919	5.798	9.969
Sweden	2.206	6.978	2.045	6.049	0.863	1.699
Russia	1.715	2.915	1.811	2.953	3.216	4.260
Netherlands	0.494	2.275	0.415	1.899	0.211	0.748
Belgium	0.315	0.879	0.372	0.877	0.373	0.827

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