{"id":77770,"date":"2018-04-03T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistans-exports-rise-in-2017-2018\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:39:27","slug":"afghanistans-exports-rise-in-2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistans-exports-rise-in-2017-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s exports rise in 2017-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"393\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/3\/export 2.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">KABUL (SW): The Central Statistics Organization reported a rise in Afghanistan&rsquo;s exports in 1396 Solar year (2017-2018).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">During the first nine months of the 1396 solar year, the export value has reached more than $600 million, while the exports&rsquo; value in the first nine months of the previous year (1395) was about $481 million, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Hasibullah Mohed, deputy director of CSO said that as export increased by 39 percent last year, import volumes also increased significantly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">According to Mohed, in the first nine months of 1396, Afghanistan has imported goods valued about $5.485 billion, while the import in the preceding year (1395) has reached $4.76 billion only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Khanjan Alakozai, deputy head of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said exports of fresh fruits and vegetables during the last nine months of 1396 was about $200 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Carpets, precious stones, fresh and dried fruits, vegetables, non-alcoholic beverages, and medicinal plants were among the main export items.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">However, officials from CSO said the opening of the Kabul-Delhi air corridor, Kabul-Mumbai and Kabul-Almaty air corridors have been the reason for the rise of exports in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Statistics Organization reported a rise in Afghanistan\u2019s exports in 1396 Solar year (2017-2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}