{"id":57452,"date":"2017-06-14T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/amman-chamber-of-industry-exports-down-9\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:19:36","slug":"amman-chamber-of-industry-exports-down-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/amman-chamber-of-industry-exports-down-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Amman Chamber of Industry: exports down 9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amman \u2013 The Amman Chamber of Industry in Jordan said exports from January to May amounted to JOD 1.552 billion (USD 2.173 billion), down 9% from the year-ago period, local news agency <i>Petra<\/i> reported this Wednesday (14).<\/p>\n<p>Exports by most industries slid in the first five months of 2017. However, foreign sales of foods, agricultural products, livestock, leather and hides, textiles and building material went up. <\/p>\n<p>Sales to Arab countries in Asia reached JOD 724 million (USD 1 billion), down 22% from a year ago. Sales to Arab countries in Africa amounted to JOD 83 million (USD 116.2 million), down 28%.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to other Asian countries climbed 14%, with those to non-Arab destinations in Africa going up 10%. Sales to European Union countries were up 6%, <i>Petra<\/i> said. Sales from Jordan to India reached JOD 232 million (USD 324.8 million), and sales from Jordan to the United States clocked in at JOD 182 million (USD 254.8 million).<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Petra <\/i>highlighted the increase in exports to Palestine (90%), Indonesia (78%), China (484%) and Turkey (92%), and the drop in exports to Saudi Arabia (-15%) and Iraq (-29%). Sales to the latter were affected by the shutting down of Jordan-Iraq land borders. <\/p>\n<p><b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-188609\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization based in the Jordanian capital recorded USD 2.2 billion worth of foreign sales registered from January to May this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":188609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-57452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The organization based in the Jordanian capital recorded USD 2.2 billion worth of foreign sales registered from January to May this year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57452","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=57452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}