Trade And Industry & Foreign Trade of Palestine before Nakba: Supplementing Volume I, Chapter XIII, Pages 441 - 534, British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Supplement - Page 41

TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Supplementing Volume I, Chapter XIII, pages 441-534.

FOREIGN TRADE OF PALESTINE.

(p. 462) (§ 61)

The value of trade in the years 1945 and 1946 was as follows:-

Year I Imports I Exports j Re-exports I Transit; trade

I ~ I ~ I ~ I

1945 40,691,327 20,395,991 795,381 6.171,205

1946 -• 70,431,829 24,484,87" 3,07",927 5,419,793

~P.

(p. 463) (§ 62)

The value of trade per head of population was approximately as follows:-

Year l Imports I Exports / Total trade

-1----y;-p_ I LP. I LP.

1945 22.481 11.268 33.749

1946 37.320 12.974 50.294

(§ 63)

The value of the adverse balance of visible trade and the proportion between total imports and total exports were:/ Excess of imports I Export per cent.

I LP. I %

20,295,336 50

45,946,957 35

1945

Year

1946

(p. 465) (§ 67)

The trade balance with the main countries was as follows:-

l !) 4 ti

1 9 4 6

Country of origin I Balance
or destination excess of excess of
Imports Exports exports Imports Exports exports
- excess of - excess of
imports Imports
LP. I LP. LP. Lp:-1--,;p:- ---LP-.-
United Kingdom 4,228,013 2,800,590 -1,SS7,41lS 14,208,511 4,371,901 - 9,836,610
British Possessions 10,515,695 1,770,535 - 8,745,160 12,634,694 2,613,962 -10.020.73'J
Egypt 1,812,921 5,1)82,287 4,069,l\66 1,666,553 4,874,887 3,208,284
Iran 312,645 813,192 547 2,396,280 108,005 -2,293,275
Iraq 12,258,395 670,0SD -11,588,336 10,482,SDS 89,tl45 -10,442,453
Syria and Lebanon 1,623,008 1,431,488 - 191,520 3,145.953 751,258 -2,894,695
Turkey 2,562,176 952,"44 - 1.609.7321 6,170,920 737.604 1- e.sas.eso
Trans•Jordan 1,788,194 727,350 -1,055,844 1,697,037 616,561 - 1,080,476
U.S.A. 4,455,911 4,894,794 4S8,88S 5,773,611 5,081,268 - 692,343
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