This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat-Oc
The trade deficit increased by 7.3% in 2024 compared to the previous year. According to the Exchange Office, he reached the 306.47 billion dirhams.
This situation reflects an increase in imports of goods from 6.4% to more than 761 MMDH and an increase in exports from 5.8% to almost 455 MMDH.
Imports were thus divided between finished equipment products (+12.9% to 180.21 mmdh), finished consumption products (+10.7% to 177.45 MMDH), half-products (8 % at 163.97 mmdh), gross products (+4.3% to 33.26 mmdh) and food products (+2.2% to 91.57 mmdh).
As for exports, they mainly concerned the aeronautical sectors (+14.9% to almost 26.45 mmdh), phosphates and derivatives (+13.1% to 86.76 mmdh), the automobile ( +6.3% to 157.6 MMDH) and agriculture and agro-food (+3.1% to 85.81 MMDH).
As for the energy bill, it was established at 114 billion dirhams in 2024, with a withdrawal of 6.5% compared to a year before.
This evolution follows, essentially, to the decline in supplies with houilles, cokes and strong solid fuels, as well as the decline in imports of “petroleum gas and other hydrocarbons” and “diesel and fuel-rings”.
