Minister of Commerce and Industry, Abdullah Ahmad Zaynal Ali Reza met here today the French Secretary for Foreign Trade, Pierre Lellouche. During the meeting, they discussed means of developing trade and industrial relations between the two friendly countries, ways of utilizing opportunities and available incentives and promoting trade and industrial cooperation to encourage the private sector in both countries. In 2009, the volume of trade exchange between the two countries reached SR 25, 903 million. Out of this trade exchange, exports accounted for SR 11, 557 million and imports totaled SR 14, 346 million.