Gold, once Tanzania’s largest foreign exchange earner, sustained
a fall in the value of income from its exports as the mineral faces
trouble in the world market.
The value of gold exports reached above US$2.08
billion in the year ending October 2012, but the shipment decelerated to
US$1.75 billion in 2013 and stood at US$1.35 billion in the year to
October 2014, according to Bank of Tanzania (BoT).
The figure puts the mineral in the second largest
foreign exchange recipient after travel (tourism) which has been
increasing in the last few years.
Travel raked in US$1.96 billion in the year to
October 2014, up from US$1.79 billion in the same period in 2013 and
US$1.62 billion in 2012, BoT’s November Monthly Economic Review shows.
“Gold which has been dominant in the
non-traditional export recorded a decline following a decrease in both
volume and price,” says the statement. The yellow metal has been trading
below the 2013’s close of above US$1,200 per ounce in the world market
and the trend has affected its income in Tanzania.
The total value of Tanzania’s exports of goods and
services was US$8.6 billion, being 3.3 per cent higher compared with
the amount that was recorded in the corresponding period in 2013. The
development was attributed to good performance in exports of
manufactured goods, fish and fish products as well as increase in travel
and transport receipts, BoT says.
Export of manufactured goods increased by 35.5 per
cent to US$1.37 billion with a notable increase recorded in edible oil,
textile apparels, plastic goods, fertilizers and paper products.
During the period, the value of traditional
exports was US$768.2 million compared with US$841.7 million recorded in
the year ending October 2013.
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