{"id":48680,"date":"2026-06-20T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/48680\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:24:44","slug":"1-5-%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d9%8f%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b6%d9%8c-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/48680\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman records OMR 1.5 billion trade surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sultanate of Oman’s trade balance recorded a surplus of OMR 1.54 billion by the end of March 2026, up slightly from OMR 1.53 billion during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

Preliminary data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information,<\/a> showed that the total value of goods exports stood at OMR 5.3 billion, down 8.5% from OMR 5.8 billion recorded in the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n

Merchandise imports also declined by 11.7% to OMR 3.8 billion, compared with OMR 4.3 billion during the corresponding period last year.<\/p>\n

The decrease in exports was largely driven by lower oil and gas exports, which fell 13% to OMR 3.4 billion from OMR 3.9 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Non-oil merchandise exports remained broadly stable, edging down 0.6% to OMR 1.61 billion, compared with OMR 1.62 billion in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n

In contrast, re-exports recorded growth of 4.6%, reaching OMR 367 million by the end of March 2026, up from OMR 351 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates remained Oman’s leading destination for non-oil exports, accounting for OMR 382 million. It also topped re-export destinations with OMR 102 million and was Omans largest source of imports at OMR 1.1 billion.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia ranked second among destinations for Oman’s non-oil exports at OMR 201 million, followed by India at OMR 156 million.<\/p>\n

In re-exports, Saudi Arabia ranked second with OMR 102 million, followed by Iran at OMR 48 million.<\/p>\n

On the import side, China was Oman’s second-largest trading partner with imports valued at OMR 537 million, followed by Saudi Arabia at OMR 308 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Arab Emirates remained Oman’s leading destination for non-oil exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48697,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48680\/revisions\/48697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}