An Economic Analysis of Development and Structure of the Foreign Total Intra-Arab Trade

Tarek T El Khateeb,Roshdy S Eladawy,Sarhan A A Soliman

doi:10.4236/as.2016.71003

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The foreign intra-Arab trade is an essential tool and important input in order to achieve an important Arab economic integration. However, in spite of the efforts for the Liberation of the Arab Trade and Development, the fact indicates the modest rate of the foreign intra-Arab trade to the foreign total Arab trade with the world, as it does not exceed that percentage to 10.9% in year 2013. The present research is aimed at measuring the efficiency of the total foreign intra-Arab trade during the period (1990-2010). Where, it has been increased sharply, as value of the total foreign intra-Arab trade increases annually by about 12.6%. Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are considered the most important contributors of the total foreign intra-Arab trade, and a category of manufacturing has dominated the largest relative importance in average value of total Arab trade, which has accounted to 50.8%. Followed by category, metal fuel and other metals are accounted by about 25.3% and there is lower overall contribution to the foreign intra-Arab trade in the total foreign trade of Arab and its amount has increased by 10.58%. Therefore, it is recommended to further coordination among the Arab States in the areas of production and specialization in economic production. This is also recommended to establish the specialized department for greater Arab free trade area in every Arab country in addition to accelerate the establishment of a customs union.

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Since the foundation of The League of Arab States in 1945, Arab countries have established a number of proce-How to cite this paper: Khateeb, T.T.E., Soliman, S.A.A. and Eladawy, R.S. (2016) An Economic Analysis of Development and Structure of the Foreign Total Intra-Arab Trade
That represents about 11.6% of the annual average, and shows the value of the parameter selection (T2) to about 62.6% of the changes in the value of total intra-Arab trade due to factors reflect the effects of time
The relative importance of the total intra-trade of these ten countries is about 82% of the average value of the total intra-Arab trade during the same study period (Table 3). These results indicate of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are considered the most important contributor to the total intra-Arab trade, as taken together about 38.9% of the average of the total intra-Arab trade value during the period of study

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Since the foundation of The League of Arab States in 1945, Arab countries have established a number of proce-How to cite this paper: Khateeb, T.T.E., Soliman, S.A.A. and Eladawy, R.S. (2016) An Economic Analysis of Development and Structure of the Foreign Total Intra-Arab Trade. Since the foundation of The League of Arab States in 1945, Arab countries have established a number of proce-. (2016) An Economic Analysis of Development and Structure of the Foreign Total Intra-Arab Trade. The latest was the Convention on the Great Arab Free Trade area, which was known as “GAFTTA” in year 1998. It entered into the implementation to come into effect in year 2005. A model of Arab integration and free access to trade between Arab countries has established. That may lead to the opening Arab markets, eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers to remove obstacles in trade and to facilitate the transit and transportation of goods [1]

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