DUSHANBE, January 26, Asia-Plus  - In 2007, Tajikistan’s external trade turnover, including electrical power and natural gas, amounted to $3.9236 billion, Deputy Finance Minister, Sherali Safarov, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on January 26. 

The trade balance was negative and amounted to $987.4 million. 

Exports of goods in 2007 amounted to $1.4681 billion, and imports of goods into the republic amounted to $2.4555 billion, the deputy minister said.  

Safarov noted that inflation for 2007 stood at 19.7 percent.  According to him, such a high inflation rate has been reported in the country for the first time over the past five years.  

He said that rise in the inflation rate had resulted from rising world prices of oil products and wheat as well as rising domestic prices of electricity and natural gas.