{"id":215194,"date":"2019-06-04T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215194"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:39:02","slug":"trade-of-ramadan-items-totals-usd-2-26-bn-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-of-ramadan-items-totals-usd-2-26-bn-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade of Ramadan items totals USD 2.26 bn in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai \u2013 Ramadan foodstuff trade totaled UAE 8.3 billion (USD 2.26 billion) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the first quarter, according to Dubai Customs (<em>pictured<\/em>). The figure refers to external trade operations. The information is from the\u00a0<em>Emirates News Agency (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wam.ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WAM<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Foodstuffs traded weighed a total of 1.5 million tons, including meats, sugar, vegetables, flour, rice, nuts, bottled water, juice and dates, according to the customs authority.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan this year started in May 5 and ends this Tuesday (4). During this month of the Islamic calendar, the Muslims fast from sunrise to sundown, but it is a tradition to hold communal evening meals with family and friends, as well as donating food for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the demand for food in Muslim countries usually increases during the months leading to Ramadan to create stock and avoid shortages and price rises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-215192\">WAM<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External food trade operations to consume during the month of the Islamic calendar weighted 1.5 million tons in Q1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":215192,"comment_status":"closed","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":[26662,132,139,6055,8905,8906,30090,2741],"class_list":{"0":"post-215194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-alimentos-en-2","9":"tag-comercio-exterior","10":"tag-dubai","11":"tag-dubai-customs","12":"tag-external-trade","13":"tag-foodstuff","14":"tag-ramada-en-2","15":"tag-ramadan"},"wps_subtitle":"External food trade operations to consume during the month of the Islamic calendar weighted 1.5 million tons in Q1.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215194","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=215194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}