By: El Sayed Gamal
Riyadh – Mubasher: Saudi Arabia’s non-oil exports declined to SAR 165.8 billion in the first nine months of 2019, compared to SAR 175.4 billion in the year-ago period.
Non-oil economy’s contribution to total Saudi exports went up to 22.44% from January to September 2019, from 21.54% a year earlier, according to data released by the General Authority for Statistics.
Quarterly, total Saudi non-oil exports decreased to SAR 52.5 billion in the third quarter of 2019, against SAR 57.5 billion the year before.
China topped non-oil importers from Saudi Arabia with total exports of SAR 27.3 billion in the January-September period, followed by UAE and the US whose non-oil exports from the kingdom reached SAR 20.6 billion and SAR 4.95 billion, respectively, in the same period.
