{"id":13553,"date":"2014-04-03T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/04\/20140403_eau-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:05:09","slug":"20140403_eau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/04\/20140403_eau\/","title":{"rendered":"United Arab Emirates &#8211; Growth in trade and stronger Italy-Emirates links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Commercial relations between Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue to flourish. Figures from the ICE-Italian Trade Agency for 2013 confirm the upwards trend, with an increase in Italian imports of over 100%, or more than 1.3 billion euros. shipping and leisure craft lead the way, followed by precious and non-ferrous metals and oil. Our exports to the Emirates showed little change, with a rise of just 0.1% to 5.5 billion euros. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Drivers of growth<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The sectors making the biggest contribution are jewellery and precious stones and metals (up 29.9% on 2012), machinery and oil derivatives. The UAE\u2019s position as the principal outlet for Italian exports to the Arab world was thus confirmed, with a growing number of our companies transferring their production facilities. The trade balance remains broadly in Italy\u2019s favour, with a surplus of over 4.2 billion euros. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>These figures confirm the local market\u2019s potential for Italian products in traditional categories and in leading \u201cMade in Italy\u201d sectors such as food and fashion.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commercial relations between Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue to flourish. Figures from the ICE-Italian Trade Agency for 2013 confirm the upwards trend, with an increase in Italian imports of over 100%, or more than 1.3 billion euros. shipping and leisure craft lead the way, followed by precious and non-ferrous metals and oil. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}