摘要
中东是最重要的国际贸易市场之一。战后几十年来,它在国际贸易中的地位显著提高,在世界进出口商品贸易总额中所占的比重迅速上升。1950年,中东地区的出口值仅为世界出口总值的2.9％,而到1980年激增至10.68％,比重超过了十分之一。同一时期,中东地区的进口值在世界进口总值中所占的份额也从3.65％增加到5.27％。
The Middle East is one of the important international markets. Thefeatures commonly existing in the Middle Eastern countries' foreign tradeare as follows. 1, A high speed of development as well as a high annualgrowth rate. 2, The commodity structure of import and export traderemains in the pattern as before, that is to say, oil and other agriculturaland mineral products dominate the exportation while manufactures such asengines and transportation apparatus account for a large percentage of thetotal importation, but this structural pattern is changing gradually as thesecountries have been building up varied economic sectors. 3, Their tradepartners usually are America, West Europe and Japan, but the latter's sharein trade is expanding rapidly nowadays. 4, The foreign trade balance ofthose countries are varied, some of them have surplus, some have deficit andsome have surplus and deficit alternately. 5, The transit trade in the area wasand is prosperous and is in an important position in international trade. 6,Countries of the area have had a tradition of trade cooperative practice, nowthe integration of economy and trade among these countries is increasinglystrengthened. The prospects of the Middle Eastern countries' foreign trade are closelylinked with the trend of international oil prices, meanwhile they areconstrained by political and economic situations especially by trade conditionsin international stage. The level of internal production and consumption ofthose countries as well as their economic policies also explicitly influencetheir foreign trade tendency.
出处
《西亚非洲》
1987年第2期27-34,79,共9页
West Asia and Africa
