TRADE OF IRAQ
Dependence On British Sea Control (British Official Wireless.) (Received February 4, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, February 3. The extent to which Iraq’s trade and prosperity are bound up with Britain and dependent on British sea control and friendliness is revealed by the trade figures for the nine months ended September 30, 1940. During that period Iraq's exports increased by 106.500 dinars on the corresponding period of 4939 to 21-1,500 dinars and the increase is mainly due to British purchases. Indeed, 25 per cent, of Iraq’s export trade depends on the British Navy, that proportion of-the total exports being taken by the two great Englishspeaking democracies —Britain, including the Empire and Dominions, and the United States of America.
Japan is fiftieth on the list of buyers from Iraq.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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129TRADE OF IRAQ Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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