The Jordan Chamber of Industry, in figures reported by Petra, put industrial exports at JOD 5.17 billion for January–July 2026. The chamber gave JOD 4.82 billion for the same seven months of 2025, an increase of 7.3%, or about JOD 350 million. This is a cumulative value comparison for seven months; it is neither a full-year 2026 result nor a figure for July alone. The series is the chamber’s sector-based export account and is not identical in scope to national customs statistics or the Amman Chamber of Commerce’s origin-certificate records.

The chamber said nine of ten industrial sectors recorded growth. That count suggests broad movement, but sector counts do not show how total value was distributed because industries differ greatly in size and pace. Chemicals and cosmetics rose to JOD 1.207 billion from JOD 1.065 billion, while garments and leather reached JOD 1.064 billion from JOD 1.032 billion. Engineering, electrical and information technology exports were JOD 881 million against JOD 871 million; pharmaceuticals were JOD 355 million against JOD 353 million. These comparisons describe absolute value movements; percentage changes should also be read against each sector’s starting scale.

Food, agriculture and livestock exports were reported at JOD 619 million, compared with about JOD 543 million. Construction exports rose to JOD 173 million from JOD 107 million. Mining moved in the other direction, slipping to JOD 635 million from JOD 640 million. These selected examples show that aggregate growth was uneven: some large categories increased modestly while a smaller base could register a stronger rise. The release contained inconsistent fertilizer values and growth information, so that line is excluded here. Leaving an unresolved item out preserves the integrity of the comparison; it should not be repaired with an invented number or an unsupported calculation.

The sector values are nominal dinars. Because the source does not separate price and quantity effects, a rise in export value cannot be read as an equal increase in physical production. Exchange rates, unit prices, product mix and shipment timing can also affect trade values, and the chamber statement does not decompose those contributions. A single cumulative comparison likewise cannot establish new factory investment, employment, capacity utilization or domestic value added. Those questions require production, employment and product-level customs series. The chamber’s figures are best treated as an interim indicator of sector direction, with the limits of a value-based measure kept visible.

This series gives businesses and policy readers a sector-level view beneath Jordan’s headline trade totals. If it is compared with customs-based foreign-trade tables from the Department of Statistics, definitions, business coverage and product classifications need to be matched first. Origin certificates represent another administrative record with a different purpose. These datasets are not interchangeable repetitions of one statistic; they observe different parts of trade activity. The January–July comparison does not include the rest of the year, so a full-year conclusion requires later observations. Petra relayed the chamber’s figures, but the report did not publish a separate methodological table for the underlying sector data.