Advisor Mustafa Sabri, the Secretary General of Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry met separately here today with Chinese and Canadian Trade Delegations. During the meetings, they discussed aspects of cooperation between businessmen in the two countries as well as joint investments and increase of trade exchanges. Saudi Commercial Attaché in China Khaled Al-Hulwani attended the meeting with the Chinese delegation headed by Chan Vi, Executive Director of Beijing Limited Company for Heritage and Science. Advisor Sabri said that trade exchanges between Saudi Arabia and China amounted to $ 28 billion in 2008, an increase of 8% in comparison with the previous year, and it was in favor of the Saudi market by 64%. As for Canada, the trade exchanges between the two countries amounted to $ 700 million, according to statistics in 2006, he noted.
