The trade in pearls, precious stones and precious metals in the UAE increased by 9.3% to reach to 191.3 billion dirhams during the first half of last year, compared to 175 billion in the same period of 2018 .
According to Al Bayan newspaper, the data of the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority showed that pearls, precious stones and precious metals constituted about 24.3% of the total non-oil foreign trade in the first quarter of last year, amounting to about 785.9 billion dirhams, topping the first rank as the largest trade value compared to all commodities The other.
Trade distributed 36.87 billion dirhams to exports, an increase of 40%, or 10.5 billion dirhams, compared to 26.34 billion dirhams in the comparative period of 2018.
Total imports increased from 96.3 billion dirhams in the first half of 2018 to 102.8 billion in the same period in 2019, an increase of 6.44 billion, or 6.7%.
