Mohammed bin Rashid: Our non -oil foreign trade amounted to 1.7 trillion dirhams in the first half of the current year

Dubai, July 30 / WAM / His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, “may God bless him”, confirmed that the UAE, led by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State “may God protect him”, continues the march of its accomplishments, and its international position is increasingly established among nations as a reliable commercial partner of the world’s largest economies, and a gateway to facilitate trade flows between the globe.
His Highness said in tweets via the “X” platform: Today I saw the data of the first half of the current year of the non -oil foreign trade of the UAE .. Thank God it achieved a significant growth of 24.5% compared to the first half of the previous year .. while the average global trade growth reached approximately 1.75% .. And our non -oil foreign trade reached the numbers 1.7 trillion dirhams in the first half (twice the numbers only 5 years ago).
His Highness said, “Our non -oil trade jumped with our international partners at a record rate in the first half of 2025 …
His Highness added, “The numbers talk about our economic relations with the world … The numbers are talking about an unprecedented development of the UAE led by my brother Mohammed bin Zayed” may God protect him “… The numbers say that the next is the most beautiful and greater, God willing.”

Standard growth continues in the first half 2025.
In detail, the non -oil foreign trade data showed from the period from January 1 to June 30, 2025, the continuation of its rising course that it had started years ago, recording about 1.728 trillion dirhams (1 trillion 728 billion dirhams, equivalent to 470.3 billion US dollars) and 24.5% growth year on an annual basis, compared to the first half of 2024, and growth continued on a half annual basis by 9.1% Compared to the second half of the year 2024, which was an exceptional year for the non -oil foreign trade of the state.
The Emirati non -oil foreign trade continued to achieve standard and unprecedented growth rates in the history of the state, as it recorded in the first half of 2025 an increase of 37.8 % and 59.5 % compared to the same period in 2023 and 2022, respectively, and touched the weak number achieved in the first half of 2021, while the registrar’s weakness in the first half of 2019 exceeded.
UAE non -oil exports continued to achieve unprecedented historical growth rates recorded 369.5 billion dirhams during the first half of 2025, and with a growth rate exceeding 44.7 % – for the first time in the history of the country – compared to the same period from 2024, as well as a growth rate of 80 % compared to the first half 2023, continuing its role in its rising path, where the twice the value of non -oil exports exceeded during a year 2022, and more than the weakness of the investigator in 2021 and exceeded 3 times the registrar during the year 2020 and 2019 for the same period, respectively, and increased during the first half of 2025 by a record rate of 210.3% compared to the same period in 2019.
The non -oil exports were the best performance between the elements of Emirati foreign trade during the first half of 2025, at the expense of imports and re -export operations, which raised its contribution to 21.4% of the total non -oil Emirates trade, bypassing its contribution by 21% in the first quarter 2025, as well as its contributions in the first half of the years 2024 and 2023 where it was 18.4% and 16.4% only.
The most important destinations for the UAE’s non-oil exports were during the first half of 2025 Switzerland, followed by India second, Turkey third, and Hong Kong-China fourth. Thailand, Switzerland and India recorded the highest growth rates among the receiving markets for Emirati exports. Within the 10 most important partners of the UAE non -oil exports, the UAE exports to its partners in the comprehensive economic partnership agreements that entered into force reached 85.02 billion dirhams with a growth of 62.8 % and a share of 23 % of Emirati non -oil exports, and India received 51.45 billion dirhams, with a growth of 97.6 % compared to 2024 for the same period, that is, weak, followed by Türkiye with a value 27.2 billion dirhams and 24.1%growth. Exports increased to these ten countries that entered the comprehensive economic partnership agreements with them 3 times the exports registered in 2022 and 2021, and exceeded 4 times the exports in 2019.
The value of re -export operations also continued its rising course, and reached 389 billion dirhams during the first half of 2025, a growth of 14 %, 15.8 % and 25.4 % compared to the similar periods of 2024, 2023 and 2022. The re -exports of the 10 most important growth partners of 16.5 % and the rest of the countries were 12 % growth during the comparison period with the first half 2024.
As for the UAE imports of non -oil commodities, it amounted to 969.3 billion dirhams during the first half of 2025, a growth rate of 22.5 % compared to the same period from 2024, and the UAE imports of the 10 most important commercial partners increased by 20.8 % and the rest of the countries 24.3 %.
The Emirati non -oil trade with the 10 most prominent commercial partners of the state around the world also continued its rising course in the first half of 2025 a growth of 25.5 %and an increase of 23.6 %with the rest of the countries, and increased with India – which entered the comprehensive economic partnership agreement with it since May 2022 – by 33.9 %, with China by 15.6 %, Switzerland 120 %, more than weakness, and Saudi Arabia has achieved growth in a rate 21.3% compared to the same period from 2024, and Turkey with which the UAE is associated with a comprehensive economic partnership agreement also 41.4%, and the Emirati non -oil trade in the UAE with the United States of America witnessed a growth of 29% and ranked sixth among the 10 largest commercial partners around the world, while France entered the list in the first half of 2025.
It is noteworthy that the UAE has launched the comprehensive economic partnership agreements program to expand our network of commercial partners around the world .. where non -oil foreign trade continued to reap the fruits of this program after working teams have completed 28 agreements so far, 10 of them have already entered into force and trade has become more incapable and up to markets in which about 3 billion consumer lives.

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