Turkey's jewel exports reach $825M in Q1

ISTANBUL Turkey's Jewellery Exporters Association announced Tuesday that its exports had reached $825 million in the first quarter of 2019. Jewel exports also rose by 26% to reach $300 million year-on-year in March, the association said in a statement. Top export destinations were the U.A.E., the U.S., Hong Kong, Libya, Israel and Germany. "The jewellery sector, which made $4.4 billion exports in 2018, is a strategic sector," Mustafa Kamar, head of the association, noted. Last year the sector's exports increased by 35% compared with 2017, he recalled.