Israel first quarter foreign trade

Israel's Central Statistics Bureau reports that Israel exported raw hides and skins, and leather and leather products, worth US$3.7 million in the first quarter of this year, compared with US$2.7 million in the same period last year. Israeli imports of the same types of commodities in the January to March period were worth US$21.8 million, as against US$17.3 million in the same period in 2004.