DUSHANBE -- Tajik-Uzbek trade doubled in the first five months of 2018 compared to the same period last year, Asia-Plus reported Friday (June 22), citing the Tajik government's Agency on Statistics.
The countries racked up almost $94 million in trade from January to May, including more than $54 million in Tajik exports and about $40 million in Uzbek exports.
It is the first time since the fall of the USSR in 1991 that Tajikistan has had a trade surplus with Uzbekistan.
Ties between the two neighbours have grown stronger since Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took office in 2016.