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The secretariat of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is pleased to present the twenty-sixth issue of the External Trade Bulletin of the Arab Region. The Bulletin includes data and statistical indicators on the international trade in goods of ESCWA member countries, based primarily on national sources and on secondary sources where needed.

The External Trade Bulletin of the Arab Region aims to provide complete detailed international merchandise trade data on ESCWA member countries for the users of such statistics, including planners and researchers at the national, regional and international levels.

The Bulletin is divided into three parts:

Part I includes summary tables on the trends of overall trade in the region, its annual growth and its share of total world trade and detailed data on the trends of imports, exports and balance of trade for member countries for the period 2007-2016.

Part II provides summary of the external trade of ESCWA member countries that include major trading partners, products traded, balance of trade and selected indicators concerning trade shares of gross national product, diversification and trade openness. It also provides data on the trends of foreign trade of ESCWA member countries, disaggregated by country and region, for the period 2012-2016. Tables, however, do not cover the Syrian Arab Republic due to the lack of detailed data on foreign trade. Data cover the value of imports and exports of ESCWA member countries by major countries and economic groupings, in line with the practices of the United Nations Statistics Division and other international organizations.

Part III presents the values of intraregional trade in ESCWA member countries in a series of tables. These tables underline the importance of intraregional trade as part of total world trade, identify the trade network within the region and provide a concise reflection of the structure of intraregional trade according to the main sections of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS). Trade in crude oil has been excluded from the data in this part in order to show the structure of intraregional trade in non-oil merchandise.

Bulletin du commerce extérieur de la région arabe, n° 26 

Le vingt-sixième numéro du Bulletin du commerce extérieur de la région arabe comprend des données et des indicateurs statistiques sur le commerce international des marchandises des États membres de la CESAO, provenant principalement de sources nationales complémentées par des sources secondaires au besoin.

Le bulletin est divisé en trois parties : la première présente des tableaux récapitulatifs sur les tendances globales du commerce dans la région, sa croissance annuelle, et sa part dans le commerce international. Le rapport expose aussi des données détaillées sur les importations, les exportations et la balance commerciale des États membres au cours de la période 2007-2016. La deuxième partie fournit des informations sur le commerce extérieur des États membres, y compris leurs principaux partenaires commerciaux, les produits échangés, la balance commerciale, et des indicateurs tels que la part du commerce dans le produit national brut, et le degré de diversification et d’ouverture commerciale. Elle présente également des données sur les tendances du commerce extérieur des États membres, par pays et par région, pour la période 2012-2016. La troisième partie fournit des données sur le commerce intrarégional et sa part du commerce mondial, classées selon les principales sections du Système harmonisé de désignation et de codification des marchandises.

Foreword

Part1:

• Summary of the external trade statistics of ESCWA member countries
• Summary of the external trade statistics of ESCWA member countries

 Part2:

• Profiles and direction of external trade of ESCWA member countries
• Country Profiles

 Part3:

• Intraregional trade of ESCWA member countries
• Intraregional trade of ESCWA member countries