Azerbaijan ranks second among drug exporters to Georgia

Azerbaijan is one of the three countries to which Georgia exports medicines, Report informs referring to the National Statistics Office of Georgia.

In total, Georgia resold imported medicines to 26 countries, the first of which is Uzbekistan, where medicines were sold for $28.79 million. Azerbaijan is in second place with $10.103 million, Armenia is in third place with $2.286 million.

Next come Kyrgyzstan - $1.571 million and Russia - $1.512 million.

Some 20% of imported drugs in Georgia are re-exported to other countries.

Over the seven months of this year, drugs worth $234.207 million were imported to Georgia, and drugs worth $47.597 million were re-exported.