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UAE's imports from Pakistan rise 50% to $1.8b
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Saturday, Oct 04, 2008
Gulf News
Dubai: The UAE's imports from Pakistan increased 50 per cent this year compared with the previous year, according to trade figures from the Pakistani Commercial Office in Dubai.
Imports increased from $1.2 billion in 2007 to $1.8 billion in 2008. The UAE was the largest importer from Pakistan in the Arab region.
The Arab region imported goods worth $3.36 billion in the July 2007-May 2008 period, an increase of 40.4 per cent from the year before.
Mansour Bajwa, commercial counsellor for Pakistan in Dubai, told Gulf News that the main imports to the UAE include textiles, leather and rice.
"Pakistan is also increasing exports of gems and jewellery, fruits and vegetables, IT software exports and petroleum products, particularly to the UAE," he said.
Pakistan's other major export items are cement, sports and surgical goods, livestock and marble.
After the global food crisis, GCC countries have been looking across their borders for agriculture investment to secure their food resources.
Pakistan has seen significant initial interest for agricultural land.
Growing interest
He said that "a lot of investors have shown interest" in the first Middle East-Pakistan agriculture and dairy investment forum,
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and other UAE companies and institutions have acquired farmland in Pakistan.
At the agriculture forum in Dubai last April, "investors pledged over $3 billion worth of new investments in Pakistan's agriculture and dairy sectors, highlighting the country's potential for milk and fruit production," according to a Gulf Research Centre report on agriculture investment.
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