13 Mar 2013
(MENAFN) The UAE Federal Customs Authority (FCA) announced that the country’s non-oil exports grew to USD36.93 billion in the January-September period of 2012, reported Emirates 24/7.
The authority said that the figure is compared with the USD22.97 billion recorded in 2011’s same period.
The FCA added that the overall non-oil trade, excluding the free zones trade, increased by USD26.94 billion from a year before, reaching USD213.25 billion.
In the mean time, the UAE’s imports climbed by 13 percent, reaching USD134.73 billion.
In the 9-month period, foreign trade with Arab states stood at USD30.83 billion, of which USD14.37 billion were imports, USD7.10 billion exports and USD9.33 billion were re-exports.
It is worth noting that the UAE’s trade with the GCC reached USD17.88 billion in the period, with exports standing at USD5.03 billion, imports at USD7.04 billion and re-exports at USD5.79 billion.
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