{"id":374545,"date":"2024-09-19T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=374545"},"modified":"2024-09-19T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:53:29","slug":"oman-posts-trade-surplus-of-9-4bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/oman-posts-trade-surplus-of-9-4bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman posts trade surplus of $9.4bn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Riyadh \u2013 Oman posted a trade surplus of OMR 3.65 billion (USD 9.4 billion) in the first half of 2024, a slight 2.4% decrease from a year earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the National Center for Statistics and Information, exports rose to OMR 11.6 billion rials (USD 30 billion), marking a 6.7% increase from June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This growth was primarily driven by higher oil and gas sales, which climbed to OMR 7.2 billion (USD 18.6 billion), a 5.3% increase from the previous year.\u00a0Top exports were crude oil, refined oil, and natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oman&#8217;s i<strong>mports<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s imports also rose by 10.8%, reaching OMR 8 billion (USD 20.7 billion) by June. Mineral products were the largest category, followed by machinery, electrical equipment, and sound recording devices. The country is also a re-exporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<br><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-vale-enters-into-distribution-jv-in-oman\/\">Brazil\u2019s Vale enters into distribution JV in Oman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-374549\">Sohar Port<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major exporter of oil and gas, the Arab country recorded a trade surplus. Top imports were mineral products and machinery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":374549,"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":[9561,49082,9562,2030,1810],"class_list":{"0":"post-374545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-exports-en","9":"tag-gas-2","10":"tag-imports-en","11":"tag-oman","12":"tag-trade"},"wps_subtitle":"A major exporter of oil and gas, the Arab country recorded a trade surplus. Top imports were mineral products and machinery.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374545","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=374545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}