Amman Chamber of Commerce reveals lower exports during ten months

AMMAN — Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) announced on Sunday that exports during the first ten months of 2014 reached JD3.24 billion, compared with JD3.26 billion during the same period of 2013.

Arab countries topped the list of ACC exports during this year’s January-October period with JD2.05 billion, compared with JD2.17 billion during last year’s ten months.

Despite the drop in ACC exports to Iraq by 20 per cent, it still topped countries importing Jordanian products with JD697 million, followed by Saudi Arabia with JD450 million, USA with JD306 million, India with JD285 million and United Arab Emirates with JD143 million.

According to the ACC report, exports increased to each of Syria by 119 per cent reaching JD95 million, Turkey by 61 per cent with JD84 million and Palestine by 45 per cent reaching JD68 million during the first ten months of 2014. In sector distribution of exports, chemical industries and cosmetics came first with JD702 million mineral industries came second with JD528 million followed by engineering and electric industries with JD476 million.