\u00a0expects overall inflation in the UAE to average 3.5 per cent this year compared to 4.8 per cent last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nInflation in Dubai slowed to a 14-month low of 3.3 per cent in April, down from 4.3 per cent in March.<\/span><\/p>\nIndia is one of the largest source markets for staple food items for UAE importers.<\/span><\/p>\nMr Datar advised traders look to source these consumer products mainly from India as they can import in large quantities: \u201cHowever, prices of items to be imported from India could see rise of up to another 30 per cent.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UAE grocery prices of products like chillies, black pepper, lentils and sugar are increasing because of lower-than-expected crops in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23048,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions\/23048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}