Clothes and their products are the first exports of the Kingdom in 2017

MediaIn / Agencies / Amman 6 March 2018

According to a statistical report by the Jordan Chamber of Industry (JCCI) on Tuesday, clothing products and products topped the list of the most important national exports during the year 2017, with a value of 1.55 billion dinars, which accounted for 23.6 percent of the total national exports.

Pharmaceutical products came second with KD 447 million, representing 10 percent of the total national exports, despite a decline of 4.4 percent last year. Exports of raw potash products came in third with KD 333 million, or 7.4 percent of total national exports. Phosphate products by 64 million dinars to be in fourth place and to reach the volume of exports to about 267 million dinars, or 6 percent of the total national exports, while in fifth place exports of products of vegetables, plants, roots and tubers, despite the decline in the volume of exports Nearly 20 million dinars to about 264 million dinars, or accounted for 9.5 percent of the total national exports.

Despite the arrival of Jordanian exports to nearly 140 countries around the world during the past year, it is concentrated in specific countries, where about 14 countries accounted for more than 80% of the Kingdom’s exports.
The Chamber pointed out that this concentration confirms the need for Jordan to exploit its access to other markets and intensify efforts to reach more national exports to these markets with the least relative weight, so as to reach higher export levels and geographical diversity that limits the impact of external shocks and the closure of non-traditional markets.
The United States market ranked first in terms of its attractiveness to Jordanian products, accounting for 24.9 percent of total national exports last year, accompanied by a rise in national exports to the US market by about KD 71 million, recording KD 1. 112 million.
The Saudi market came in second place with 12.8 percent of the total national exports, despite a decrease of about 75 million dinars, with an export value of about 572 million dinars.
The Indian market came in third place with 8.2 percent of the total exports at a value of 367 million dinars, followed by Iraq by 8.1 percent and a value of 365 million dinars driven by the reopening of the border crossing of Trebil.