Foreign trade operations in goods by enterprises and organizations of the region in the first quarter of 2005 were carried out with partners from 62 countries of the world. Goods worth 56 million US dollars were exported, and goods worth 132.6 million dollars were imported. The main partners of the region are business entities from the Russian Federation. Exports to this country grew by almost a third and amount to 11.6 million dollars (66 percent of exports to CIS countries). Significant flows of goods were directed to Germany (8.5 million dollars), Poland (8 million dollars), Estonia (5.2 million dollars). The largest amount of imported goods also came from the Russian Federation (89.6 million dollars, almost 68 percent of the region's total import volume). Goods worth 13.6 million dollars were imported from Poland, 7 million dollars from Belarus, and 2.9 million dollars from Italy.
Significant volumes of goods exports fall on the regional center and cities of regional significance. In particular, 69 enterprises of Lutsk exported goods worth 35.7 million dollars (almost 64 percent of the total export volume). The value of goods exported by 8 enterprises of Volodymyr-Volynskyi equals 6.1 million dollars. 25 enterprises of the city of Kovel exported goods worth 5.7 million dollars.
At the same time, 113 enterprises of the regional center received imported goods worth 113.2 million dollars (85.4 percent of the total import volume). 21 enterprises of the city of Novovolynsk received goods worth 8.3 million dollars, and 14 enterprises of Lutsk district received goods worth 5.3 million dollars.