Japan, India, South Korea, the UAE, and Thailand emerged as the top five importers of Qatari goods, according to monthly statistics released by Qatar’s Ministry of Economy and Commerce for July.

The combined value of exports from Qatar to its top five destinations amounted to QR9.86 billion ($2.71 billion) in July, reported the  Peninsula Qatar citing the governmment data.

Japan and India stood at the first and second positions, in terms of the value of Qatar’s exports, with QR3.25 billion ($892.5 million) and QR2.41 billion ($661.8 million), respectively, it said.

South Korea, which came at the third place, with the export value of QR2.41 billion ($661.8 million), was behind India only with a margin of QR2 million ($549,247). Japan alone accounted for nearly 33 per cent of the top five’s export value, while the top three (Japan, India and South Korea) accounted for nearly 82 per cent.

While the combined value of Qatar’s top five origins of imports in July 2016 reached QR4.88 billion ($1.34 billion). The US, China, the UAE, Germany and Japan were the top five destinations of Qatar’s import destinations during the month of July, added the report.