Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdullah bin Ahmad Zainal Ali Rida and Yemeni industry and trade in Yemen Dr Yahya al-Mutawakkil opened here today the joint meeting for the governmental and private sectors and the second meeting for the Saudi-Yemeni Business Council. They reviewed trade and industrial relations between the two countries. In 2007, the volume of trade exchange between the two countries amounted to SR 3, 251 million ( SR 2,738 million Saudi exports to Yemen and SR 513 million imports to the Kingdom from Yemen). The number of the joint projects now totals 341, including 196 industrial projects.