IRAK'S TRADE
DEPENDENCE ON BRITISH NAVY
(nritifiti Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 3. The extent to which Irak's trade and prosperity are bound up with Britain and are dependent on Briti.su sea control and friendliness is revealed by the trade figures for the nine months ended September 30, 1940 During that period Irak's exports increased by 106,500 dinars on the corresponding period of 1939 to 214,500 dinars, the increase being mainly due to British purchases. Indeed, 25 per cent, of Irak's export trade depends on the British Navy, that proportion of the total exI ports being taken by the two great English-speaking democracies—Britain, including the Empire and Dominions, and the United States of America. Japan is fiftieth on the list of buy- I ers from Irak. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 6
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126IRAK'S TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 6
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