The UAE achieves $ 817 million in trade surplus with the Gulf states

The UAE achieved a surplus in the trade balance with countries from the Gulf Cooperation Council, which amounted to 3 billion dirhams (817 million dollars), during the first nine months of 2020.

According to Arabiya Net, the statistics of the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics showed that the achieved surplus came after national non-oil exports of 35.601 billion dirhams, compared to imports of 32.61 billion dirhams. / p>

re-exports amounted to 85.49 billion dirhams (23.3 billion dollars), bringing the total trade between the UAE and the Gulf countries to 153.7 billion dirhams (42 billion dollars), equivalent to 14.88% Of the country's total trade, according to Al-Bayan newspaper.

Saudi Arabia came to the fore, after the UAE exported 18.2 billion dirhams to it, compared to imports of 17.22 billion dirhams, then Oman 9.94 billion dirhams, compared to 4.94 billion imports. Then Kuwait 4.99 billion, compared to imports of 3.53 billion dirhams, and Bahrain 2.463 billion dirhams, compared to 6.89 billion imports.