Day: January 3, 2023

Jordanians working in Qatar sent home a staggering $440 million (JD312 million) in 2022, indicating an increase of 10 percent compared with 2021, according to Qatari money exchangers.

In interviews with the Jordan News Agency (Petra) on Tuesday, they said that remittances by Jordanian expatriates in 2022 may be the highest in several years.

According to data recently released by the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ), Jordanian expatriates’ remittances in the first ten months of 2022 increased by 0.6%, surpassing $2.829 billion (JD2 billion), while in October alone, they increased by 2.8%, reaching $290.4 million (JD205.9 million) compared to the same month in 2021.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said Tuesday that the volume of rainfall so far this season accounted for 35.4 percent of the annual average.

About 1.4 million cubic meters of water entered the dams from rain and runoff from valleys during the past 24 hours, which was concentrated in the Tannur Dam in Tafileh that received about 772,000 cubic meters, raising its storage to 48 million cubic meters, about 17 percent of its total capacity of 280,760 million cubic meters, according to a ministry statement.

The highest precipitation of 4.4 mm was recorded in Qasr Tuba in the Zarqa Governorate over the past 24 hours, it said.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Cabinet on Tuesday decided to freeze the kerosene tax during the winter season to alleviate the burden on citizens, especially those with low income.

Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh underlined the government’s commitment to implementing the royal directive and reducing the price of kerosene if global prices drop.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The total value of the certificates of origin issued by the Irbid Chamber of Industry (ICI) in 2022 went up by 15.7 percent to reach $1.4 billion, compared to the $1.2 billion reported for 2021.

According to the ICI’s annual report released on Tuesday, the increase was driven mostly by the al-Hassan Industrial Estate’s exports, which were estimated at $1.3 billion, while the remaining exports came from the Cyber City and other industrial zones in the northern governorate.

On the sector level, the textile and leather sector accounted for the lion’s share with $1.3 billion worth of exports, followed by the medical industries and supplies sector with $34 million and the foodstuffs products with $33.9 million, in addition to other sectors.

Head of the ICI Hani Abu Hassan cited recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason behind the increase in exports, indicating that the United States market was the biggest importer, accounting for a value of $1 billion, followed by the European Union countries with exports worth $104 million, and the Arab countries with exports worth $65 million, while the remaining shipments went to the Canadian and Southeast Asian countries’ markets among others.

Source: Jordan News Agency