In January-June 2005, business entities of the region cooperated with partners from 69 countries in foreign trade. Export operations were carried out by 45 enterprises, and services were imported by 67. \n \n According to data from the State Customs Service of Ukraine, business entities of the region in January-June 2005 exported goods to 54 countries worth 138 million US dollars, and imported from 53 countries worth 333.9 million dollars. The main economic partner of the region in foreign trade in goods remains the Russian Federation. The value of export deliveries to this country amounts to 34.6 million US dollars (a quarter of the total export volume), import receipts — 219.3 million dollars (two-thirds of the region-wide import). Significant volumes of goods were also exported to Germany (20.7 million US dollars) and Poland (13 million dollars). \n \n In the commodity structure of exports, deliveries of machines, apparatus and mechanical devices, wood and wood products, animal products, and petroleum products predominated. In imports of goods, the main share fell on energy materials, oil and its refined products, as well as vehicles, apparatus and mechanical devices, polymer products, and finished food products. Products were exported by 219 business entities of the region. Imported goods were received by 269 enterprises. The largest volumes of exports and imports fall on the regional center and cities of regional significance. \n \n In addition to foreign trade in goods, enterprises of the region engaged in foreign trade in services. Services worth 2.9 million US dollars were exported, and worth 6.3 million dollars were imported. In exports, services in the production of finished clothing traditionally predominate (1.8 million dollars), of which about a third were provided to Germany, and a fifth to France. The most such services were exported by the Kovel production and commercial firm "Kovel," the Volodymyr-Volynskyi open joint-stock company "Luha," and the Lutsk production and trade sewing enterprise "Volyn." To the order of foreign partners, motor transport services worth 783 thousand US dollars were performed, mainly to Germany and Poland. \n \n In imports of services, more than a third consists of transport services received mainly from Great Britain, Poland and the Russian Federation. Imported services related to licensing activity, hotel and restaurant services, and services in the spheres of law, accounting and consulting were also in demand.