Dubai foreign trade in perfumes and beauty products in 2017 reached Dh 20 billion, with imports accounting for Dh11.5 billion, and exports and re-exports for 8.34.
The statistics that Dubai Customs released at the Beautyworld Middle East 2018, which is taking place from May 8 to 10 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, showed that the volume of perfumes and beauty products reached 733,000 tons.
France topped the list of Dubai trade partners in perfumes and beauty products in 2017 with Dh2.7 billion, while the USA’s trade made Dh1.4 billion, followed by Italy in the third place with Dh1.1 billion.
As for exports and re-exports Saudi Arabic came first with Dh 1.1 billion, followed by the USA with Dh855 million and Oman with Dh 588 million.
Ahmed Abdul Salam Kazim, director of strategy and corporate excellence at Dubai Customs, said: "We at Dubai Customs follow a transparent approach when dealing with businesses, by sharing foreign trade figures and statistics, so they can plan the size of their investments ahead and make well-informed decisions."
Perfumes and cosmetics, perhaps more than any other luxury goods, have long been a major target for counterfeiting. Due to this and considering the serious risk counterfeit toiletries pose to people's health, Dubai Customs takes exceptional care to pin down counterfeiters selling bogus perfumes and cosmetics, he added.
Beautyworld Middle East is the wider region's premier trade and networking event for beauty, hair, fragrance, machinery, packaging, raw materials and wellbeing.