Azerbaijan exported nearly 359,000 tons of crude oil and petroleum products worth $253.1 million to Bulgaria in January-July of this year.

Operativ Media reports, citing the State Customs Committee.

According to the report, this exceeds the figures of the corresponding period of last year by 5.2 times in value and 4.5 times in volume.

In total, the country exported more than 12.7 million tons of crude oil and petroleum products worth $8.032 billion in the first seven months of the current year. Bulgaria ranked fifth among the importing countries in this category, accounting for 2.82 percent of the total export volume.