Bali`s exports to Japan worth nearly $60 mln
February 15th, 2008
Denpasar (ANTARA News) - Bali`s exports of handicraft products and other non-oil/non-gas commodities to Japan in 2007 were valued at almost US$60 million, an increase from US$45.4 million in 2006.
Bali`s exports of handicraft products to Japan are very encouraging and the value of the commodity export to that country increases every month, head of the foreign trade department of the provincial industry and trade office, Ni Wayan Kusumawathi, said here Thursday.
Ni Wayan said Bali`s exports of handicraft and commodities produced by small-scale industries contributed 11 percent of the province`s total foreign exchange earnings from non-oil/non-gas exports in 2007 worth US$504 million.
“It reflects that handicraftsmen and exporters from the Goddess island are increasingly able to meet the Japanese consumers` demands,” she said.
A handicraftsman from Ubud, Ketut Sudi, said among Bali`s handicraft products exported to Japan were artistic wooden chopsticks.
Besides handicraft products, Japan also imported fishery commodities from Bali including fresh tuna fish, crabs, lobsters and a kind of seafish locally known as ‘kerapu’. (*)
Source: ANTARA News
Entry Filed under: Bali Tourism News
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