Exports of the private sector exceed QR 11 billion in nine months

The state’s interest has been evident through the promulgation of numerous legislations, decisions, policies, and mechanisms such as the Law No. (12) regulating public-private partnership.

The QC’s newsletter said that according to the figures given by The Planning and Statistics Authority for September 2020, the total the value of foreign merchandise trade statistics amounted to QR 20.4 billion, showing a decrease of 7.2 % compared to August 2020, which amounted to QR 21.1 billion.

In September 2020, the total exports of goods (including exports of goods of domestic origin and re-exports) amounted to around QR 13.4 billion, showing slight decrease of 4.3 % compared to QR 14 billion in August, while imports during the same month amounted to around QR 7 billion, showing a decrease of 1.4 % compared to QR 7.1 billion in August.

Therefore, the country’s trade balance, which represents the difference between total exports and imports, showed a surplus of QR 6.4 billion, recording a decrease of 7.2 % compared to QR 6.9 billion in August.

In September 2020, China was at the top of the countries of destination of Qatar’s foreign trade with about QR 3.6 billion, a share of 17.6 percent of the state’s total foreign trade.

The report also featured the trade of private sector during September according to the certificate of origin issued by the Chamber which reached QR 1 billion, showing an increase of 17% compared to August, and increase of 91% compared to April 2020 which represented the lowest month in the year, and showing a decrease of 44% compared to QR 1.953 in February which represented the best month of the year.

Therefore, the total value of exports of the private sector in the first nine months of this year amounted to QR 11 billion.

Exports of the private sector in Q3 reached QR 2.83 bn compared to QR 2.15 bn in Q2, an increase of 32%.

The QC’s reports indicated that exports through GSP model certificate of origin have the largest value in September, increasing 128% m-o-m compared to August 2020, followed by exports through the Unified Arab model by 18% and Unified GCC model by 4%.

There were no goods exported through the Unified GCC certificate of origin for exporting to Singapore, while exports through the General Model decreased by 9%.

According to the type of commodities, there are nine main commodities, represented the 98% of the total volume of the private sector exports during September, amounted to 1 billion, recorded an increase of 20% compared to 889 million in August.

Private sector’s exports of Helium gas & industrial gas have seen a sharp increase of 434% from QR 33 million in August to QR 176 million in September, followed by Paraffin which increased by 96% from QR 40 million in August to QR 78 million and petrochemicals with exports amounted to QR 50 million in August compared to QR 77 million in September, an increase of 96%.

Exports of chemical substances recorded an increase of 53% from QR 50 million in August to QR 77 million in September. Followed by lutreine which increased by 24% from QR 53 million to QR 65 million and essential oils which increased from QR 258 million to QR 300 million.

In September 2020, India was at the top of the countries of destination of private sector’s exports with close to QR 274 million, a share of 25.2 percent of the total exports. It was followed by Oman with almost QR 193 million and a share of 17.7 percent, Sweden with about QR 120 million, a share of 11 percent.

Turkey came in fourth place with almost QR 116 million, a share of 10.6 percent and France with about QR 105, a share of 9.7 percent.

These seven countries received 74.1 percent of the total value of private sector exports in September.

At the level of blocs and groupings, Asian countries were at the top of economic blocs that received exports of the private sector with a share of 47 % of the total value, amounted to QR 515 million, followed by EU states with a share of 22.2% with exports of QR 270 million.

In third place came the group of GCC states, with exports totaling QR 212 million representing 19.4% of the total value, followed by Arab countries excluding GCC states that received QR 69 million, a share of 6.3 percent and African Countries excluding Arab countries with exports amounted to 20 million, a share of 1.8 percent.

The group of Other European countries, Other American countries and the USA which received exports of values 0.37%, 0.06% and 0.01% respectively