Articles of exchange auctions became oil, cotton and machine engineering goods Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 51 transactions were registered. For the foreign currency businessmen from Afghanistan and other countries bought motor petrol and slack wax manufactured at Turkmenbashi oil refineries complex. Besides it, for the foreign currency textile goods in wide assortment, mechanical engineering production, cotton yarn and fabric, cotton fibre, liquorice root, refined cotton wastes were realised. The countries-buyers: the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Turkey, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and others. The total sum of transactions exceeded 56 million US dollars. For the home market local businessmen bought food wheat, cotton linter and gin motes for the sum of over 523 thousand manats.