Syrian exports start to gradually recover – official
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Head of the Import and Export Committee in the Syrian Chamber of Commerce, Fahad Darwish, said on Monday that Syrian exports are gradually recovering.
Darwish stated to the pro-government al-Watan newspaper that the value of Syrian exports during the first quarter of 2023 reached approximately $ 250 million.
He added that natural resources exported by the General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources held the first rank. Vegetables came second in terms of the volume of export value, and fruits came in third place.
Darwish noted that world-renowned food products such as cheese, dairy, various canned products, and others came in fourth place, and then spices such as coriander, anise, cumin, and others came fifth.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Syrian Exporter, the value of Syrian exports reached about $700 million in 2018. It slightly improved in 2019 and reached $ 750 million, whereas, in 2020, exports achieved considerable improvement as they reached $ 950 million.
In 2021 and 2022, the value of exports reached over $ one billion, considering that the past two years had seen a major decline in world trade due to Covid-19 and, later, the Russian-Ukrainian war.