Israeli nine-month foreign trade

Israel's Central Statistics Bureau reports that Israel exported raw hides and skins, and leather and leather products, worth US$12.4 million in the first nine months of this year, compared with US$9.1 million in the same period last year. Israeli imports of the same types of commodities in the January to September period were worth US$73 million, as against US$58.3 million in the same period in 2004.