Ministry: Russia’s diamond output rises 1.3% to 43 mln carats ‘18

MOSCOW, Apr 11 (PRIME) -- Russia’s diamond output rose 1.3% to 43.161 million carats in 2018, according to the Finance Ministry’s documents seen by PRIME on Thursday.

In monetary terms, diamond output decreased 3.1% to U.S. $3.983 billion in the period.

Russia exported 44.66 million carats of diamonds for $4.695 billion. Imports of diamonds amounted to 918,951 carats for $296.491 million.

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