Re-exportation

Re-exports consist of foreign goods exported in the same state as previously imported, from the free circulation area, premises for inward processing or industrial free zones, directly to the rest of the world and from premises for customs warehousing or commercial free zones, to the rest of the world.

This is necessary because re-exports do not undergo any value-added processes, so cannot be counted towards a nation's exports.

[1] Thus re-exportation involves export without further processing or transformation of a good that has been imported.

In contrast, Finland imported crude oil from the Soviet Union as part of bilateral trade between these two countries and refined the oil for export to other Western European countries but this was not re-exportation because the crude oil was refined before selling.

Dubai has emerged as the major re-export center for the entire Middle East region.