Abu Dhabi’s non-oil trade rises to 170 billion dirhams in 2018

13-03-2019 Media in\ Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s non-oil foreign trade reached AED 170 billion in 2018, an increase of 6.8% compared to AED 156.2 billion in 2017.
The increase in the trade of the emirate was supported by the increase in the value of non-oil exports, which amounted to 27.7 billion dirhams last year, a growth of 23.8% compared to 22.3 billion dirhams in 2017. The trade of re-exports increased from 21.7 billion dirhams to 26.3 billion dirhams In the same period of monitoring and imports. It reached AED 113 billion in 2018 compared to AED 112.1 billion in 2017.
On a monthly basis, the value of exports in December rose by 3.6 billion dirhams compared to 1.7 billion dirhams in the same month of 2017. The value of re-exports increased from 2.3 billion dirhams to almost 3 billion dirhams, while imports declined from 9.2 billion dirhams to 8.6 billion dollars. AED.