Day: 10 August 2024

Based on the geographical distribution of the chamber’s exports during the past seven months of 2024, Arab countries top the list with a value of JD1.725 billion, non-Arab Asian nations stood at about JD722 million and African countries at JD20 million.

During the same period, the chamber’s exports to North American countries amounted to JD1.094 billion, South American nations stood at JD52 million, European Union (EU) members states at JD207 million, other European non-EU countries at about JD85 million and other countries were worth about JD61 million.

The chamber’s exports from the chemical industries and cosmetics stood at JD991 million, the mining sector at about JD818 million, and engineering, electrical and information technology amounted to about JD616 million, the statistics showed.

According to statistical data, exports of the sectors of food, agricultural and livestock industries amounted to about JD456 million, drugs and medical supplies stood at about JD386 million, and leather and knitwear at
JD291 million.

Meanwhile, the remaining exports went to the sectors of plastic and rubber industries, which stood at JD173 million, packaging, paper, cardboard and office supplies at JD161 million, construction at JD62 million and wood and furniture industries were worth about JD12 million.

The chamber, which was established in 1962, currently brings under its umbrella 8,600 industrial facilities, employing 159,000 workers with a capital of about JD5 billion.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates expressed its sincere condolences to Brazilian government and people over the victims of the plane crash in the state of Sao Paulo Friday, which killed dozens.

In a statement Saturday, the ministry’s official spokesperson, Dr. Sufian Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom’s sympathy with Brazil over this painful tragedy, expressing its sincere condolences to the victims’ families.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Jordan has “remarkable” opportunities to increase and diversify its industrial exports to various export markets, especially to the United States of America, Canada and Brazil, Head of Jordan Exporters Association (JEA), Ahmad Khudari, affirmed.

In remarks to “Petra” Saturday, Khudari said JEA is harnessing all its efforts and relations with various international institutions and concerned local stakeholders to provide all facilitations to enable industrial exporters and promote their products in global markets through specialized exhibitions.

Khudari added that the JEA, within its strategic plans to support and increase industrial exports, is working to coordinate Jordanian participation in “important” international exhibitions and hold specialized workshops to benefit from the opportunities provided by the free trade agreements, which was signed by the Kingdom with various trade blocs, especially the U.S. and Canada.

JEA, he noted, has coordinated Jordanian participation in several international e
xhibitions since the beginning of this year, primarily Fancy Food Show 2024 held in New York City, Dubai GulFood, SIAL Canada in Montreal, and Saudi Food Show in the capital, Riyadh.

Khudari stated that the association will coordinate participation of local industrial companies in Arab Gulf exhibitions for agricultural products and technologies, private brands, and desserts, Arab and Gulf Industry Exhibition, SIAL Paris, and Food Additives and Ingredients Exhibition during the coming period.

Khudari also noted the association’s interest in startups owned by businesswomen, as the JEA will allocate a 20-meter venue within the Jordanian pavilion that will participate in the upcoming Fancy Food Show in New York and Saudi Food Show, through the presence of 8 women-owned startups in these events.

Khudari stressed that Jordanian industry is one of the “key” pillars in building the national economy, in light of its contribution that reaches about 25% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and employs more than 268,0
00 workers.

Meanwhile, Jordan’s industrial exports contribute about 90% of the total national exports, which now reach the markets of 150 countries globally, thanks to their “high quality.”

Additionally, he said the industrial sector produces 1,500 goods worth JD17 billion annually, while a total of about 1, 4000 commodities were exported.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Exports of Amman Chamber of Industry (ACI) amounted to JD3.966 billion during the January-July period of 2024, compared to JD4.024 billion for the same period last year, marking a slight drop of 1.4%.

According to statistical data obtained by “Petra,” 7 sectors recorded an increase in their exports by a rate ranging between 2.2% for the catering, food, agricultural and livestock industries and 28.2% for the chemical and cosmetics industries.

On the other hand, exports of the remaining three industrial sectors went down by a percentage ranging between 3.2% for the packaging, paper, cardboard and office supplies industries, and 30.7% for the mining industries.

Four Arab and foreign countries accounted for more than half of the chamber’s exports during the past seven months of the current year, namely India, United States of America, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, recording a value of JD2.545 billion.

According to the statistics, the chamber’s exports to the United States of America surged during the same per
iod by 61%, recording JD1.072 billion, compared to JD666 million for the same period last year, making it the top Arab and foreign country to import the highest amount of the ACI exports.

Furthermore, the ACI’s exports to Iraq went up during the same period by 8.4%, recording a value of JD525 million, compared to JD484 million during the same period last year 2023.

The chamber’s exports to Saudi Arabia went down by 5.9% during the same period of the current year, plummeting to JD454 million, compared to JD482 million for the same period last year.

During the same period of the current year, the chamber’s exports to India recorded a decline of 25.3%, standing at JD494 million, compared to JD661 million for the same period last year.

Based on the geographical distribution of the chamber’s exports during the past seven months of 2024, Arab countries top the list with a value of JD1.725 billion, non-Arab Asian nations stood at about JD722 million and African countries at JD20 million.

During the same period,
the chamber’s exports to North American countries amounted to JD1.094 billion, South American nations stood at JD52 million, European Union (EU) members states at JD207 million, other European non-EU countries at about JD85 million and other countries were worth about JD61 million.

The chamber’s exports from the chemical industries and cosmetics stood at JD991 million, the mining sector at about JD818 million, and engineering, electrical and information technology amounted to about JD616 million, the statistics showed.

According to statistical data, exports of the sectors of food, agricultural and livestock industries amounted to about JD456 million, drugs and medical supplies stood at about JD386 million, and leather and knitwear at JD291 million.

Meanwhile, the remaining exports went to the sectors of plastic and rubber industries, which stood at JD173 million, packaging, paper, cardboard and office supplies at JD161 million, construction at JD62 million and wood and furniture industries were worth about
JD12 million.

The chamber, which was established in 1962, currently brings under its umbrella 8,600 industrial facilities, employing 159,000 workers with a capital of about JD5 billion.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli bombing of Al-Tabi’een school, which houses displaced persons in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza, at Saturday dawn, which killed over 100 Palestinians and injured dozens.

The ministry said this Israeli attack is a flagrant violation of the international law rules, and deliberate and systematic aggression against civilians and centers for sheltering displaced persons.

In a statement, the ministry’s official spokesperson, Dr. Sufian Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom’s absolute condemnation and denunciation of Israel’s continued violations of international law and international humanitarian law.

Qudah added that these Israeli practices come in light of the absence of a firm international position that obliges Israel halt its aggression on Gaza and forces it to respect international law, which resulted in unprecedented killing, destruction and humanitarian disaster.

Qudah said this attack, which coincides with mediators’ a
ttempt to resume negotiations on a swap deal that will lead to a permanent ceasefire, reflects Israeli government’s efforts to obstruct and thwart these endeavors.

Amid the Israeli government’s persistence in its systematic violations of international law, Qudah urged the international community, especially the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities to immediately halt the Israeli aggression on Gaza, stop the ongoing and continuous Israeli violations of international law, and hold those responsible accountable.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: Saturday will see a slight drop in mercury and the weather will be moderate almost nationwide and blazing in the Badia, the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and Aqaba, Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily update.

According to the JMD report, the weather on Sunday will remain substantially similar to the day earlier with northwesterly to active winds.

Temperatures are set to rise “slightly” on Monday, and the weather will be normal summer almost countrywide and sizzling in the Badia, the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and Aqaba.

On Tuesday, the weather will remain approximately unchanged as the day earlier.

Also today, temperatures in the capital Amman will hit a high of 33 degrees Celsius and a low of 19?, while the port city of Aqaba will reach a scorching 42? degrees during the day, sliding to 28? at night.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Beirut: The Israeli army escalated on Saturday evening its airstrikes and artillery shelling on Lebanese towns and villages in the south, injuring four people with moderate to serious injuries.

A Lebanese security source told Petra’s correspondent in Beirut that “airstrikes targeted the towns of Ayta, Khiyam, Hanin and Majdal Selm, causing injuries, while Israeli artillery shelling was recorded on the outskirts of the towns of Rashaya al-Fakhar, Kafr Hamam, Tal al-Nahhas and Kafr Kila.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza: Palestinian human rights organizations condemned in the strongest terms the horrific mass murder committed by the Israeli occupation forces that targeted hundreds of worshipers and displaced persons, killing 97 of them in a school chapel sheltering thousands of displaced men and women in Gaza.

The human rights organizations said in a joint statement on Saturday that the crime is a blatant expression of a declared Israeli policy of continuing to commit this type of horrific crimes after 10 months of the wide military offensive on the Gaza Strip and is the result of the continued policy of impunity and the complicity of some Western countries in the grave violations against the Palestinian people by providing the occupation forces with weapons and munitions with the absence of international will to compel the occupation state to implement the decisions of the International Court of Justice to stop the ongoing genocide crime against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The organizations expressed th
eir shock at the scenes of the burned remains of dozens of martyrs that were scattered in the school’s chapel and yard, which indicates that these missiles fired at the school are of the destructive and incendiary type used by the occupation forces in the genocidal war against the Palestinian people.

They pointed out that the occupation’s claim that it uses smart bombs in its military attacks is a false claim and expresses its disregard for the entire world, as it continues to engage in mass killing and offers unfounded justifications that contradict the facts.

“Today we are facing a first-class crime that confirms the occupation’s approach to deliberately committing genocide, with the decision of the political level, to the point that Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, publicly stated that killing two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by starvation may be just and moral to bring Israeli prisoners back from the Gaza Strip,” the organizations added.

The organizations, including the Palestin
ian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan Center, and Al-Haq stressed that the occupation’s repeated justifications for targeting members of the resistance are nothing more than worthless claims, as there is no justification in any way for using such disproportionate and unnecessary force that led to the martyrdom of a large number of civilians and civilians inside a school sheltering displaced people.

The organizations called on the international community to force Israel to stop the crime of genocide, impose a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and oblige it to comply with the decisions of the International Court of Justice to impose temporary measures to prevent the crime of genocide.

Source: Jordan News Agency