LImports reached more than 491.57 billion dirhams for the first eight months of 2022, once morest 339.56 billion dirhams at the end of August 2021, an increase of 44.8% while exports increased by 37% to 276.80 billion dirhams at the end of August 2022, specifies the Foreign Exchange Office which has just published its monthly indicators of foreign trade for the month of August.
The coverage rate, meanwhile, lost 3.2 points (56.3% once morest 59.5%), adds the same source.
The increase in purchases of goods follows the increase in imports of the majority of product groups, underlines the office which notes that the energy bill reached more than 103.05 billion dirhams at the end of August 2022 once morest 45.16 billion dirhams at the end of August. end of August 2021.
This development is dependent on the rise in purchases of diesel and fuel oil (+27.967 billion DH) due to the rise in prices which have more than doubled (10,101 DH/T once morest 4900 DH/T). At the same time, the quantities imported increased by 11.5%.
Regarding imports of semi-finished products, they increased by 53.1% following the strong growth in ammonia purchases (13.58 billion dirhams once morest 4.04 billion dirhams).
For their part, imports of raw products increased by 69.5%, notes the office, specifying that this increase follows the increase in purchases of raw and unrefined sulfur which more than doubled (+9.25 MDH).
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