Ukraine is the main supplier of soybeans to Moldova

An analysis of quantitative indicators of international trade in soybeans in Moldova for the period from 2022 to 2025 (the first 3 months) demonstrates the predominance of import operations over export ones. At the same time, 99.22% of all imports come from one country – Ukraine, which supplied 56.64 thousand tons out of a total import volume of 57.08 thousand tons. The total turnover for the analyzed period amounted to 71.42 thousand tons, of which 79.9% comes from imports and 20.1% from exports of beans. Ukraine has consistently been the leader in soybean supplies throughout the analyzed period. In 2022, it accounted for 99.99% of imports (14.84 thousand tons), in 2023 – 97.19% (10.08 thousand tons), in 2024 – 99.50% (30.20 thousand tons), in the first quarter of 2025 – 99.99% (1.51 thousand tons). The other importing countries were much less important. Germany ranks second with a share of 0.39% of total imports (0.22 thousand tons), with all imports from this country ...