Foreign Trade of Palestine: Percentage of Imports For Consumption From Certain Countries of Origin, 1935-1939, Value of Imports of Merchandise For Consumption, By Countries of Origins in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 472. Chapter XIII: Section 2: Foreign Trade of Palestine

CHAPTER XIII.

Thus British goods purchased in Egypt or Syria are entered under the United Kingdom as being the country of origin.

77. Origin of imports. - The sources from which Palestine drew its supplies prior to 1940 were quite widespread and varying, apart from a regular concentration on some five or six main suppliers. The chief countries which supplied over half of Palestine's imports before the war were :-

PERCENTAGE OF IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN, 1935-1939.

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

United Kingdom Germany Rumania

Syria

U.S. America

Per cent, of total imports

18.0 19.9 15.8 18.2

lits 14.6 16.5 14.5

6.8 7.6 8,6 11.0

7.9 10.0 8.6 8.9

9.4 7.2 6.9 8.5

16.4 11.1 a.a 9.S 18.8

The countries of origin of Palestine's import trade for the years 1938-1944 are shown in the following table :-

VALUE OF IMPORTS OF :MERCHANDISE FOR Consumption, BY COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN, 1938-1944.

Country of origin

11938119391194011941r1942 r~ 1944

£P. £P. I £P. £P. £P. I £P. £P.
United
Kingdom l,f95,800 2,391,450 2,461,260 9,667,448 S,9~,647 1,830,769 2,949,875
British
poseesetone ?iG,417 896,870 1,804.865 3,267,069 8,866,710 7,'140,613 10,011.871
Belgium ass. ,.. 861,189 840,829 1,819 1.8-00 897 108
Bulgaria. 75,699 H,168 42,557 9,688 2,1516 '•"" 36,!U8
Czechoslovakia 847,298 281,116 17,251 1,869 1,195 218 665
Denmark 68,186 69,806 18,!>69 75 -
France 907,774 296,402 229,488 19,880 2,t70 ssa 1,921
Germany 1,644,838 1,621,929 166,205 U,446 7.666 22,926 19,672
Holland 292,0ll 286,696 188,SU 2,289 se e 1'4 see
Hungary 76,855 180,682 101,186 5,008 2.074 so 64,410
Italy 286,242 816,134 261,286 11,848 8,65t 1'8 1,179
Norway 81,191 •U,637 28,!193 800
Poland 419,478 599,455 27,151 s.sss 2,016 GS() t,~9
Portugal 18,570 19,558 17,022 8,840 2,110 4,048 sso.sao
Ru mania. 1,258,021 1,200,217 l,8~,096 64,855 12,45-0 18,840 1,736
Russia 89,785 9,451 2,491 8,944 2,859 ...... ee.sss
Sweden 106.212 140,668 91,&H 5,149 487 'II 996
Switzerland 107,720 195,716 84,909 17,798 6,457 1,415 16,607
Yugoslavia 110,861 148,200 lOS,641 4,4S5 57 600 II
Abyssinia. e.sos 1,987 ** ** e.eee 64,047 332,826
Egypt 405,249 599,648 1,888,084 1,677,155 l,OlW,719 2,011,004 2,098,600
Arabia. ..... 15,858 19,4.'Jt 210,8'19 tSS,466 493,804 W,570
Jran 114,86t 2S2,t55 224,807 95,l!r.I 85,970 118,8112 167,512
Dutch Ea11t
Indies lG0,258 818,814 250,558 845,784 8i6,475 88,581 1,148
Iraq 172,885 206,858 l,l48,t6S 1,945,SlU 2,2'10,658 '1,'JtR.774 ll.6t8,988
Japan 808,402 048,84' 477,058 196,455 14,898 1,424 8,878
Syria 1,014,958 l,SSS,203 501,966 395,216 678.""' l,'59,590 1,400,184
Turkey 78,585 92,4li7 817,429 ........ I .7..... 1.971.957 s.eee. 719
Trans-Jordan (*) I (•) "' 285,Ui 6'18,911 i.1'12,158 1,440,62'1
U.S.A. 009,573 1,958,4.57 1,219,461 1,817,896 2,195,705 1,887.248 8,109,269
liS8,S'T8 J 252,24:9 ""'•""' 78,122 219.~ 110,899 122,678 Tot.al
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* Figure 8 for the trade with Trans• Jordan were not available prior to July, 1941.

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