The total non-oil trade in the UAE increased by 4.4% to reach 1.603 trillion dirhams in 2019 compared to 1.536 trillion dirhams in 2018.
According to the Emirates News Agency, the statistics of the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority showed that the re-export trade of the UAE continued its momentum during the past year, reaching a value of 457.4 billion dirhams, compared to 431.55 billion Dirhams in the year 2018, accounting for about 28.5% of the total foreign trade .. while exports accounted for about 14.4% of the total trade, rising from 206 billion dirhams to 231.23 billion dirhams during the same monitoring period. The value of imports increased from almost 898.37 billion dirhams to 914.8 billion dirhams, which constitutes 58% of the total trade.
The re-export trade and free zones have become a valid advantage for the UAE economy, at the level of the Middle East region and the world, which reflects the state’s success in what it has invested over the past period in infrastructure, which It resulted in the provision of a network of ports, transport, infrastructure, legislation, logistical services and other features that in their entirety formed a stable structure for global partners and in a manner that reflects the state's position as an essential component of the global trade map.
The Partners' Map At the level of the map of trade partners of the UAE during the past year, there has not been a significant change in the ranking of countries as China ranked first and the value of trade between the two countries reached 184.15 billion dirhams During the past year, India followed by 152 billion dirhams, followed by Saudi Arabia, 113.25 billion dirhams, the United States of America, with a value of 96.56 billion dirhams, and Switzerland, 65.2 billion dirhams, and the value of UAE trade with the Sultanate of Oman reached 55.4 billion dirhams.
The value of the UAE’s trade with Iraq reached 53.75 billion dirhams, while it reached 48 billion dirhams with Japan, 44.7 billion dirhams with Germany and 38.88 billion dirhams with State of Kuwait.
It is noteworthy that the statistics issued by the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority relied on the general trade system according to which all data related to direct trade and free zones and private warehouse trade data are recorded and combined with Each other, including imports, exports, and re-exports of the UAE with the outside world, with an emphasis on not recording data on trade between the country, free zones, and warehouses, in order to contradict this data so that it becomes a duplicate of it when it is registered.
