Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Furniture dominated the first two-day transactions in the 23rd Indonesia Trade Expo which was opened by President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono on October 21, 2015.<\/p>\n
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“The transactions reached US$ 5,64,281 and was dominated by Spanish, Greek, Italian and British buyers with the largest portion came from furniture (64.3%), handicrafts (14.2%), and cosmetics and herbal products (8.8%),” Bachrul Chairi, Head of National Agency for Export Development said here Thursday.<\/p>\n
The figure would still increase and reach the peak on the third and fourth day.<\/p>\n
“Furniture products are favorites. One of the exhibitors even earned a total of one million US dollars in transactions on the first day,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The producer of fire engines is said of having negotiations with buyers from the Middle East for purchasing five such fire trucks,” he added.<\/p>\n
The target of this year`s expo increased 10% from US$ 200 million to US$220 million.<\/p>\n
“The number of visitors is predicted to reach 20,000,” he said.<\/p>\n
Chairi added that a number of 4,600 buyers came on the third day of the event from 63 countries such as the US, Brazil, UAE, Australia, Japan, Nigeria, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, non-traditional markets such as Lebanon and Algeria started to become interested in the fact that almost 50 buyers come from each country.<\/p>\n
Taken from http:\/\/www.antara.co.id\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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