SIMFEROPOL, June 27 - Exports to the European Union accounted for 10.2% of the total foreign sales of Crimea in the first quarter of 2014, the Crimean Ministry of Economics said on Friday, two days after the EU imposed a ban on all imports from Crimea unapproved by the Ukrainian government.

Crimea's total exports for the first quarter were worth $57.2 million, a volume where the EU's share was $5.9 million. April's exports to the EU were a mere $72,000, the ministry said in a statement published by Crimea's Information Ministry.

"Exports to EU countries mainly consist of products of the engineering and chemical industries and agriculture," the statement said.