The value of non-oil foreign trade in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi increased by 5.6% to reach 55 billion dirhams during the first quarter of 2020, compared to 52 billion dirhams in the same quarter. From 2019.
According to the Emirates News Agency, statistics from the Abu Dhabi Statistics Center showed that the rise in the emirate’s trade during the first quarter of this year came with the support of increasing non-oil exports to 15.512 billion dirhams With a growth of 5.6% compared to approximately 14.7 billion dirhams in the same quarter of 2019, the value of re-exports amounted to 11.1 billion dirhams.
At the level of imports, its value during the first quarter of this year amounted to 28.3 billion dirhams, an increase of 16.9% compared to 24.2 billion dirhams in the same quarter of 2019. < / p>
Figures from the Statistics Center show that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to be the first in the list of most countries trading with Abu Dhabi during the year the first quarter of 2020, where the value of trade exchange between the two sides 4.58 billion dirhams.
The United States of America came second with a value of 1.53 billion dirhams, followed by Japan with 994 million dirhams, the United Kingdom 860 million riyals and China 776 million dirhams. >
According to the standards followed by the Statistics Center, non-oil merchandise trade is limited to goods that entered only from or exited the land, sea and air ports of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which means that they are Not all of Abu Dhabi's non-oil trade represents the world.
Industrial supplies ranked first in the list of the most exported non-oil goods, with their value during the first quarter of this year amounting to 12 billion dirhams ... while the value of exports of food and beverages reached To 1.7 billion dirhams, about 1.05 billion dirhams for consumer goods and 430 million dirhams for productive goods, and the remainder of the value distributed to other economic groups.
At the level of re-export trade, transportation equipment and accessories came first with a value of 5.2 billion dirhams, followed by consumer goods at about 2 billion dirhams, then productive goods worth 1.74 billion dirhams Almost.
As for imports, the industrial supplies trade came first, with a value of 12 billion dirhams .. While the value of Abu Dhabi's imports of productive goods reached 6.4 billion dirhams and transportation equipment And its accessories are 6.24 billion dirhams, about 1.8 billion dirhams for consumer goods, and 1.5 billion dirhams for food and beverages, 148 million dirhams for fuel and lubricants.
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