1.72 trillion dirhams, the volume of non-oil trade between the UAE and China

The non-oil foreign trade between the UAE and China during the period from 2012-2021 grew by 78.5% to reach a value of 223.5 billion dirhams by the end of 2021, compared to 125.1 billion dirhams in 2012, and the total non-oil foreign trade between the two countries during that period exceeded about 1.72 trillion dirhams, Of these, 1.53 trillion dirhams are imports, about 64 billion dirhams are the value of non-oil exports, and about 121 billion dirhams are the value of re-exports, according to data from the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center.

The data showed that the first half of this year recorded a non-oil trade exchange between the UAE and China worth 118.4 billion dirhams, distributed between imports worth 102.7 billion dirhams, non-oil exports worth 5.5 billion dirhams, and re-exports worth 9.8 billion dirhams.

The year 2017 recorded the highest volume of trade exchange during the past decade, with a value of 195.6 billion dirhams, an increase of 15%, compared to the volume of trade in 2016 of 170.1 billion dirhams.

Communication devices topped the list of goods that were imported from China during the past year, with a value of 70 billion dirhams, followed by data processing machines with a value of 23.6 billion dirhams, human medicine vaccines with a value of 4.1 billion dirhams, display screens with a value of 2.5 billion dirhams, and headphones and amplifiers with a value of 2.5 billion dirhams. dirhams.

In the list of the top 5 commodities exported to China, ethylene polymers came in the first place with a value of 4 billion dirhams, followed by propylene polymers with a value of 1.9 billion dirhams, rape oils with a value of 1.4 billion dirhams, copper residues and scrap with a value of 0.6 billion dirhams, and residues of fatty oil extraction with a value of 0.57 billion dirhams.

As for the list of the top 5 commodities that were re-exported from the country to China during the past year, communications devices topped the list with a value of 8.3 billion dirhams, data processing machines with a value of 2.09 billion dirhams, cars with about 1.5 billion dirhams, raw nickel with a value of 1.3 billion dirhams, and parts and supplies for vehicles. worth 0.6 billion dirhams.

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