UAE’s foreign trade at Dh782.7b

The UAE’s foreign trade in the first nine months of 2012 touched Dh782.7 billion, compared to Dh684.9 billion for the same period in 2011, recording an increase by Dh97.8 billion, up by 10.5 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics, or NBS, has announced.

The NBS said that imports stood at Dh494.5 billion in the first nine months of 2012 compared to Dh439.9 billion for the same period of 2011, an increase of 12.3 per cent.

The figures showed that exports amounted to Dh136.6 billion in the same period of 2012 compared to Dh84.4 billion for that in 2011, increasing by Dh51.2 billion, up by 61 per cent.

Meanwhile, re-exported commodities increased to Dh152.6 billion during the first nine months of 2012 compared to Dh160.6 billion for the same period in 2011, down by five per cent.

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