AMMAN —
The Kingdom’s trade balance deficit with the
Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) inched up by 1.39 percent to around JD2.075 billion in 2021, compared
with JD867 million in 2020, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said in a
statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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The statement said
that national exports to GAFTA countries last year went up by 12.6 percent to
JD2.268 billion, compared with JD2.014 million in 2020.
National imports
also climbed during the last year by 50.7 percent to JD4.343 billion, compared
with JD2.881 billion in 2020, the report added.
According to data, Saudi
Arabia was at the top of the list of Jordanian exports to GAFTA countries in
2021 with JD733 million. It also headed the list of countries importing to
Jordan, with imports from Saudi Arabia amounting to JD2.282 in 2021 with a
trade balance deficit of JD1.549 billion.
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