Monday, January 12, 2026

Georgia had 8 percent increase in visitors in March

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10% more tourists visited Georgia in January-March 2014, compared to the year before. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia had an 8 percent increase in number of visitors in March, 2014, compared to the same period last year.

There came 392,725 visitors in the third month of 2014, according to new monthly figures published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Georgian PM visits site of new air, sea and land transit hub

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia on Wednesday confirmed plans for a new airport in conjunction with a port in Anaklia, a small settlement on the Black Sea coast, on the border with Abkhazia.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, who visited Anaklia with Infrastructure

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Are interruptions in Georgia's wine export economic warfare?

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Levan Davitashvili, head of Georgia’s National Wine Agency. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–There are interruptions in the export of wine from Georgia to Belarus, although formally the export is not stopped.

The sale of wine to Ukraine and Russia is continuing without any restrictions, according to Levan Davitashvili, head

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17% increase in Georgia's foreign trade Jan-Feb confirmed

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Georgia’s foreign trade was 17% higher in the two first months of 2014, compared to 2013, but most of the trade is import. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover January-February, 2014, was USD 1 567 million. This is a 17 percent increase, compared to the same period last year.

Precise figures from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, show that export accounted

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Georgia creates service center to assist exporters

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Grape harvest 2013. Wine if one of Georgia’s export products. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ministry of Economy Giorgi Kvirikashvili is creating a new service center to protect the interests of exporters.

Kvirikashvili said on Thursday said that the new body will start working from Friday.

“Along with positive trends in Georgia’s foreign trade turnover,

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Foreign investments in Georgia virtually unchanged in 2013

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The top investment sector in 2013 was energy. Here Enguri dam. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia received USD 914 million in direct foreign investments in in 2013. This is 0.3 percent more than in 2012, according to preliminary figures from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat.

According to the figures, direct foreign

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Georgian PM woos foreign investors

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Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia offers investors a favorable environment and a market of potentially 900 million people, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said during the Georgia-Israel Business Forum.

Gharibashvili mentioned that a common system of allowances with 8 countries,

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Georgia may revise taxation on some imported goods

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Gogi Topadze, one of the parliamentarians who authored the bill. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia may change the rules for VAT taxation and abolish advantages for importers of certain categories of goods.

Parliament has started reviewing the draft, but the National Movement criticizes it and says they believe members of the ruling

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47 % price hike on vegetables in Georgia

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Vegetable prices had a projected annual growth of 46.6 percent in February, according to GeoStat. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Vegetable prices are on course to a 46.6 % projected annual increase in Georgia, new figures from the National Statistics Department, GeoStat, show.

Georgia’s monthly inflation rate was 0.2 percent in February, according to the new report.

In February

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