CARACAS: Venezuela’s non-petroleum exports total $4.2 billion so far this year, with the figure expected to rise on year-end sales.
“We’re expecting a large amount of exports for the end of the year, as is normal in terms of trade in any nation. We believe we’re going to have very new (sic) export figures this year,” Trade Minister Isabel Delgado said during a meeting with business leaders.
Non-petroleum exports cover products manufactured “by productive units of the state,” but also those produced by “small- and mid-sized private industries” that sell cacao, flowers, medicines, shrimp and chocolate, Delgado said.
New macroeconomic statistics have not been released since former Economy Minister Nelson Merentes told business leaders from 24 different industries on May 15, 2013, that the government had set the “strategic goal” of creating “economic zones for exports.”
Venezuela’s exports came in at $24.6 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with non-petroleum exports totaling only about $800 million in the period. EFE
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