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Imports from the non-oil business sector increased by about 7% through Abu Dhabi ports during the first half of this year, according to recent data from the emirate’s Statistics Center, which showed that the volume of imports reached 68.5 billion dirhams, an increase of 4.1 billion dirhams over the same period last year 2023.
The center’s data showed that machinery and transportation equipment were the sector’s primary need, topping its imports with a 45% share of total imports, with a value amounting to 30.6 billion dirhams, also achieving a growth rate of about 17% over the value of the business environment’s imports of these goods, amounting to 26.2 billion dirhams in the first half of 2023.
While chemicals had the third largest share of business imports, with a value exceeding 5.9 billion dirhams, then imports of food and live animals, with a value of 5.6 billion dirhams, and imports of vegetable oils and fats goods amounted to 3 billion dirhams.
While the value of imports of inedible raw materials, excluding fuel, was 4.1 billion dirhams, while imports of miscellaneous manufactures were worth 2.9 billion dirhams, while about 2.4 billion dirhams were distributed between imports of mineral fuel goods, similar products, and tobacco, in addition to miscellaneous goods.
