Asia attained 42.5% of total foreign trade turnover of Uzbekistan in the first three months of this year or grew by 1.1 percentage point year-on-year.

Uzbekistan’s trade with American continent slipped from 3.7% in the first quarter of 2008 to 2.5% in the same period of 2009, while the share of Africa remained unchanged at the level of 0.2%.

Share of Australia and Oceania in foreign trade of Uzbekistan fell from 0.1% in January-March 2008 to 0 in the same period of 2009, Uzbek State Statistics Committee said.

Foreign trade turnover of Uzbekistan grew by 8.1% year-on-year to US$4.78 billion in the first quarter of 2009.