Foreign Trade of Palestine: Value of Exports of Manufactured Articles Distinguishing Petroleum Products, for the years of 1940 - 1944 in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 478. Chapter XIII: Section 2:

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84. It will be seen from the above tables that the increase in the value of exports of articles mainly unmanufactured is due principally to the increase in the exports of polished diamonds and heavy petroleum products both of which are finished products from the point of view of Palestine industries and could more appropriately be considered as articles mainly manufactured. Apart from these two items the value of exports of articles mainly unmanufactured is very small, consisting mainly of asphalt (1944) which is also a product of the oil refineries.

85. Even before the war the value of exports of manufactured articles had exhibited an upward trend until 1939 exports of this class amounted to £P.765.255. During the war years, however, Palestine became the centre for the production of a wide range of commodities required both for military and for civil consumption in the Middle East (see sections 3 and 4 below). The result was that exports of this class amounted to £P.8.2 million in 1943 and to £P. 7 .3 million in 1944. A large part of this increase is attributable to the exports of refined petroleum products; nevertheless, the value of exports other than petroleum products has shown progressive increase as can be seen from the following table:-

VALUE OF EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES DISTINGUISHING PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, 1940-1944.

1940 1941 1942 1943 I 1944
£P. I £P. £P. £P I £P.
Petroleum products I W,460 1,SU,127 4,059,280 4,S79.S55 2,851,876
Other manufactured articles 983,251 1.~o.m 2,136,876 9,849,980 4,495,548
Total manufactured 1,616,711 \ S,0'11,959! 6,1!>6.600 I 8,229,2851
articles '1,847,424 Excluding the petroleum products the principal groups of commodities included in manufactures which contributed to the increased exports in the year 1944 were glass and glassware, £P.227,000; iron and steel manufactures, £P.137,000; apparel and footwear, £P.l,073,000; leather manufactures, £P.268,000 and miscellaneous manufactures, £P. 728,000.

86. Countries to which exports are credited.-Exports are credited to the countries of destination declared at the time of exportation. These countries are not, in all cases, the countries of ultimate consumption, since goods may be re-sold on arrival and shipped to another country. The countries of destination of Palestine's exports in the last sever; years are given in the table on page 479.

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