{"id":79097,"date":"2018-09-18T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/exports-surge-to-447-million-in-eight-months\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:56:22","slug":"exports-surge-to-447-million-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/exports-surge-to-447-million-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Exports surge to $ 447 million in eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"466\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/September\/18\/Traditional 2.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The rate of exports from Afghanistan increased by 38 percent in the first 8 months of the current year, officials announced in a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ajmal Hameed Abdul Raheemzii, deputy minister at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said Afghanistan exported goods worth $ 447 million this year so far. He added the bulk of exports comprised of fresh and dry fruits, carpets, herbal medicine and gemstones.<\/p>\n<p>He noted in a year before, the exports stood at $ 169 million.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abdul Raheemzai announced the Lapis Lazuli trade corridor with Europe would be utilized for trial import and export&nbsp;in few weeks&rsquo; time. He said Afghan carpets and gemstones will be among maiden shipments to Turkey and Holland.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The rate of exports from Afghanistan increased by 38 percent in the first 8 months of the current year, officials announced in a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79097","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\/79097","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=79097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}