{"id":213041,"date":"2019-04-26T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213041"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:36:31","slug":"abu-dhabi-pearl-trade-amounts-to-usd-468-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/abu-dhabi-pearl-trade-amounts-to-usd-468-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi pearl trade amounts to USD 468 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Trade in pearls, precious stones and precious metals amounted to AED 1.72 billion (USD 468 million) in Abu Dhabi, UAE last January,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wam.ae\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Emirates News Agency<\/em> (<em>WAM<\/em>)<\/a>\u00a0quoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scad.gov.abudhabi\/en\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statistics Centre &#8211; Abu Dhabi (SCAD)<\/a>\u00a0as reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl and precious stone\/metal sales made up 9% of non-oil trade for the emirate, which came out to AED 19.2 billion (USD 5.2 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Abu Dhabi and the UAE are known across the Gulf for pearl and stone trade, a traditional activity for locals for over 100 years, according to <em>WAM<\/em>. Over time, the sector developed and went international.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl\/stone exports accounted for 26.5% of non-oil exports fetching AED 1.45 billion (USD 395 million).<\/p>\n<p>Re-exports of precious items reached AED 16 million (USD 4.3 million), with imports amounting to AED 254 million (USD 69 million).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213033\">Foodcollection\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of pearls, precious stones and precious metals came out to AED 1.72 billion in January, according to the Statistics Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":213033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Sales of pearls, precious stones and precious metals came out to AED 1.72 billion in January, according to the Statistics Centre. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}