Amman Chamber of Commerce data reported by Petra put the value of trade covered by certificates of origin issued in the first nine months of 2026 at JOD 1.188 billion. The chamber compared that with JOD 984 million in January–September 2025, an increase of 20.7%. The number of certificates rose from 31,133 to 34,558, or 11%, over the same period. These are cumulative nine-month comparisons, not a September-only result. The amount describes transactions documented by the chamber and is not the same statistical series as Jordan’s national customs exports.

A certificate of origin is an export document supporting information about where goods originate and how a trade transaction is recorded. Chamber records can offer a useful but institutionally bounded indicator of trade activity. The 20.7% increase in recorded value alongside an 11% rise in certificate count suggests that the average value per certificate may also have changed, but the published summary does not explain why or provide a product mix. It would therefore be premature to attribute the gap to higher prices, larger consignments or increased production. Values are nominal dinars, not physical volumes or an inflation-adjusted production series.

The chamber listed JOD 567 million in foreign goods, JOD 174 million in agricultural goods, JOD 144 million in Arab goods and about JOD 136 million in industrial goods among the reported groups. These categories follow the source report’s product or origin descriptions. They are rounded, and the summary does not provide enough classification detail to treat them as a national value-added account or to add them into a complete decomposition. The foreign-goods figure is a particular reason not to describe the entire JOD 1.188 billion as goods produced in Jordan. Chamber certificates illuminate documented transactions and exporter paperwork; they do not by themselves measure the domestic-production share.

Among the destinations cited by the chamber were Iraq at JOD 477 million, Switzerland at JOD 112 million, the United Arab Emirates at JOD 89 million, Saudi Arabia at JOD 80 million and Egypt at JOD 62 million. This ranking shows the weight of those markets in the chamber’s recorded certificate activity, not a complete account of all Jordanian exports by destination. Iraq’s much larger reported amount makes regional trade and land-logistics links relevant to watch, but a single nine-month total cannot establish that destination shares are permanent. Without comparable product and partner tables, demand, price and shipment effects cannot be separated.

The figures add a different lens to the trade picture from national customs statistics. Customs series measure goods crossing borders under their own definitions; the chamber release summarizes certificates it issued, their recorded values and selected groups. The two datasets should not be combined under one label or treated as cross-validation of each other. For businesses, document activity may provide an administrative signal of transactions oriented toward external markets. A fuller assessment of economic performance would also need product quantities, prices, customs records and trade in services. Petra relayed the chamber’s statement; the report did not include an independent methodological table for the underlying records.