Israel nine-month foreign trade

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reports that Israel imported raw hides and skins, and leather and leather products, worth US$59 million in the first nine months of 2004, as compared with US$49 million in the same period the previous year. Israeli exports of the same types of commodities were worth US$9.1 million in the January to September 2004 period, as against US$9.6 million in the same period in 2003.