Oil Exports And Imports Riyadh, Jumada II 14, 1435, Apr 14, 2014, SPA -- The Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI) said that value of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's non-oil commodity exports in February 2014 amounted to (16,721) million Saudi riyals, up by (20.6 %) compared to the same period of 2013, while imports reached during the period (44,405) million Saudi riyals, down by ( 8%) compared to the same period of 2013. In its report to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the CDSI said that the percentage of non-oil exports reached in last February (37.66 %) of the total value of imports during the same period. It stressed that the exports of plastics and rubber and their products came first with a total value of (5747) million Saudi riyals representing (34.37 %) of the total value of non-petroleum exports and the chemical industry products and their relevant occupied the second place with a value of (5234) million Saudi riyals by (31.3%), and transport equipment and their spare parts thereof occupied third place with a value of (1699) million Saudi riyals by (10,16 %) of the total value of exports. The machinery, equipment, electrical appliances and their spare parts thereof were in the first place on the list of imports to the kingdom last February with a total value of (11423) million Saudi riyals by (25.72% ) of the total value of imports while the transport equipment and parts thereof occupied second place with a value of (8490) million Saudi riyals by (19.12 %), and the ordinary metals and their products came in the third place with a value of (5056) million Saudi riyals by (11.39 %). China topped the countries exporting to and importing from the Kingdom, by occupying first place in terms of the value of non-petroleum goods exports by (12.48 %) of the total value of exports; the United Arab Emirates came second by (11.05 %) followed by Singapore at (7.06 %). In terms of imports, China ranked first by (13.36 %) of the total of imports followed by the United States of America in the second place by (12.08 %) and Germany the third ( 6.66 % ).
