Bandung - West Java exports continue to increase. Last year, exports grew 10.8 percent Jabar worth 25.74 billion U.S. dollars with a total production of 6.69 million tonnes of exports.

 

Head Office of Bank Indonesia Bandung (KBIB), Lucky Fathul Aziz Jabar Hadibrata said export growth for 2011 is slower than 2010, a 21.7 percent growth. According to him, the condition is due to the influence of global economy, especially, the crisis that struck the countries of Europe and the United States (U.S.).

 

"As a result of the crisis, exports to the U.S. and Europe Jabar reduced. Jabar instead make other regional countries, namely ASEAN and Asia, including China and Japan, as well as Africa and the Middle East, as an export destination. "

 

Although devastated by the crisis, said Lucky, Jabar exports to the U.S. and Europe are still dominant. Jabar total market share of exports to the U.S. and European countries during 2011 by 34 percent.

 

Lucky points out, during 2011 the import value and volume Jabar smaller than exports. The numbers, he said, about 1,600 million U.S. dollars. While the volume, he said, about 180 thousand tons. Tejo