Palestine's Trade With Middle Eastern Countries: Imports to Palestine From Egypt and Other Levant States, 1934, 1936, 1938 before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 482. Chapter XIII: Section 3:

X£P. £P. £P. £P.
1934 279,000 92,000 528,000 429,000
1936 832,000 68,000 932,000 408,000
1938 265,000 56,000 558,000 433,000 manufucturea I Foodstuffs /Manufactures

92. The structure both of the export and import trades has been very greatly changed as a result of the dislocation of normal supply arrangements caused by the war, as is illustrated in the case of Palestine's exports in the tables following this section. Since the conditions under which the development of Palestine's export trade reflected in these tables came about are relevant to the question of its future, they will be treated in further detail below. Where imports are concerned, Palestine was obliged in the course of the world-wide regulation of supplies by the United Nations authorities to have recourse to the Middle East countries for has ic foodstuffs and to some extent for raw materials which had formerly been obtained from overseas. In consequence of this wocurement programme, Palestine imported from Middle East countries during the war years large quantities of cereals and animals for slaughter at price levels which were relatively very high. In making a. comparison with pre-war figures, the following table accordingly excludes the main war supply items and, in the case of Iraq, the import of crude petroleum :

1939 I 1943 1944
£P. £P. £P.
Egypt I 600 1075 823
Levant States 1355 1397 1173
Iraq 207 317 341
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