MINSK, December 4. /TASS/. Trade volume between Minsk and Moscow amounted to $44 bln in the first 10 months of this year, representing a 1.8% increase, Dmitry Krutoy, head of the Belarusian Presidential Administration, said at a meeting of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State in Minsk.

"Over the first 10 months of this year, trade in goods amounted to $44 bln with a growth rate of 101.8%," he said, adding that "trade in services grew by 17%, or $6.5 bln in absolute terms."