KIEV, April 12 – Ukraine's commodities foreign trade deficit came in at $656.3 million January through February, 7.8% down on the same period of 2009, the State Statistics Committee reported on Monday.

The export of goods from Ukraine in the first two months grew by 24.7%, to $6.396 billion, while the import of goods rose by 20.7%, to $7.053 billion.

The committee said that the ratio of the coverage of imports by exports over the period under review increased to 0.91 compared to 0.88 in the same period last year.