(MENAFN) Scotland's Chief Statistician said that Scotland's manufactured export sales increased last year by 1.9 percent versus the year before it, Xinhua reported.
Official data show that the export sales volume during the last quarter of the year alone dropped 4 percent from the previous quarter.
During the quarter, engineering, metal and non-metal products' exports rose, while exports of petroleum, chemicals and pharmaceutical products dropped.
The pharmaceutical sector is crucial to the Scottish economy as it forms nearly 25 percent of total exports.
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