AMMAN Data issued by the Amman Chamber of Industry on Wednesday revealed that the construction industries sector sources 53 per cent of the sectors inputs domestically, while the rest is imported.

In a statement carried by the Jordan news Agency, Petra, Alaa Abu Soufeh, representative of the construction industries sector, said that the sector in question possesses 16 per cent of the total 2,813 industrial enterprises with a collective capital of JD315 million. He added that the sector comprises 70 per cent of Jordans industrial capital.

Abu Soufeh pointed that the sectors exports in 2018, mostly to countries in the region, have increased by 14 per cent in revenues to JD138 million, compared with JD121 million in 2017. The sector accounts for 3.3 per cent of local production and 3 per cent of the total of industrial exports.

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