KABUL, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's total trade volume in 2024 exceeded more than 12 billion U.S. dollars, with a 38-percent increase in imports year-on-year and a 4-percent decrease in exports, said the country's Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

"Afghanistan's total trade scale in goods stood at 12.42 billion dollars in 2024, of which the country's export volume reached 1.8 billion dollars, while imported