{"id":487,"date":"2020-11-13T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/namibia\/?p=487"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:37:37","slug":"china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september","title":{"rendered":"China maintains as Namibia\u2019s top export market in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>namibia &#8211; africa press. China maintained its dominance as Namibia\u2019s largest export destination, with a share of 44.5 percent of all goods exported, followed by South Africa which accounted for 16.3 percent of total exports, according to the country\u2019s statistics agency.<\/p>\n<p>The trade statistics bulletin, released on Thursday by the agency, outlined the monthly developments of Namibia\u2019s trade-in merchandise with the rest of the world during the period of September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to Namibia Statistics Agency Statistician-General, Alex Shimuafeni, the composition of goods exported remained the same mainly comprising of minerals such as non-ferrous metals, metalliferous ores and metal scrap, non-metallic mineral manufactures, as well as non-monetary gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFish remained the only non-mineral products among the top five list of exports. On the other hand, the import basket comprised mainly of non-ferrous metals, petroleum and petroleum products; metalliferous ores and metal scrap, vehicles and inorganic chemicals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Shimuafeni said the September trade figures indicate that total re-exports decreased by 7.7 percent month-on-month and increased by 61.8 percent year-on-year to register four billion Namibia dollars (256 million U.S. dollars) from 4.4 billion recorded in August 2020 and 2.5 billion in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The non-ferrous metals took the largest share of re-exports, constituting a share of 61.1 percent of total re-exports mainly to China. The non-ferrous metals which were re-exported were mostly sourced from Zambia and DR Congo, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>namibia &#8211; africa press. China maintained its dominance as Namibia\u2019s largest export destination, with a share of 44.5 percent of all goods exported, followed by South Africa which accounted for 16.3 percent of total exports, according to the country\u2019s statistics agency. The trade statistics bulletin, released on Thursday by the agency, outlined the monthly developments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,16],"tags":[234,171,235,233],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-china","tag-china-exports-to-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China maintains as Namibia\u2019s top export market in September - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"China maintained its dominance as Namibia\u2019s largest export destination, with a share of 44.5 percent of all goods exported, followed by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China maintains as Namibia\u2019s top export market in September\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"China maintained its dominance as Namibia\u2019s largest export destination, with a share of 44.5 percent of all goods exported, followed by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-13T08:36:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-13T08:37:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2020\/11\/04.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"594\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"China maintains as Namibia\u2019s top export market in September\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-13T08:36:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-13T08:37:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2020\/11\/04.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"CHINA\",\"China exports to Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/economy\/china-maintains-as-namibias-top-export-market-in-september\",\"name\":\"China maintains as Namibia\u2019s top export market in September - 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