The Emirate of Abu Dhabi achieved a surplus of approximately 8.3 billion dirhams in the trade balance of non-oil commodities during the year 2019.

According to the Emirates News Agency, the annual statistical book issued by the Abu Dhabi Statistics Center showed that the surplus achieved by the trade balance of non-oil commodities came as a result of the emirate’s exports exceeding its imports as it reached The value of export trade exports and re-exports amounted to approximately 110.76 billion dirhams during the year 2019, compared to imports of 102.42 billion dirhams in the same period.

Thus, the total value of non-oil merchandise trade in the emirate amounted to approximately 213.2 billion dirhams, and transport equipment formed the emirate's most important imports during the past year and represented 20.6% of total imports and occupied the kingdom Saudi Arabia ranks first among the supplying countries with a value of 12.2 billion dirhams.

On the non-oil commodity exports side, during the past year it amounted to approximately 57.9 billion dirhams, and mineral minerals and their products were the most important exports, accounting for 29.6% of the total exports, and Saudi Arabia also ranked The first among the countries exported to it, at a value of 25.8 billion dirhams.

As for the level of re-exports during the past year, it amounted to approximately 52.8 billion dirhams, and the most re-exported goods were transport minerals, which accounted for 38.3% of the total re-export. Saudi Arabia ranked first, and the value of the goods that were re-exported to it reached 17.4 billion dirhams.

On the other hand, the annual statistical book showed that the volume of natural gas imported by the emirate amounted to 793.3 billion cubic feet in 2019, with a daily average of 2.17 billion cubic feet. p>