UK/JORDANIAN COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

JORD A

BRITISH

OVERSEAS

TRADE

BOARD

MIDDLE EAST BRANCH

OVERSEAS TRADE DIVISION 4/IB

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE & INDUSTRY

1-19 VICTORIA STREET

LONDON SWIH OET

TEL: (071) 215 5169 / 5314

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^ ф ® British exports to Jordan have maintained a respectable

share of the market over the last few years and we are among

the leading exporters, the others being Iraq, the United States,

the department for Enterprise japan, West Germany and Saudi Arabia. The figures for our own

• visible exports are:

UK/JORDANIAN

COMMERCIAL 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987

RELATIONS 300m

200m

100m

Sterling Pounds 262m 192.3m 154.3m 130.4m 189m 183,6m

© Our principal exports apart from defence sales are
construction machinery, generating equipment, switchgear,
capital machinery for specialist industries, scientific equipment,
pharmaceuticals, metals, communications equipment, food¬
stuffs, textiles, yarns and a substantial amount from invisible
earning, particularly in the consultancy services field.

© The figures for Jordan’s exports to Britain (mainly foodstuffs
and re-exports of plant and machinery) are:

1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

100m

Sterling Pounds 28.7m 18.Im 86.0m 49.7m 29m 21.3m

© From a peak in the early 1980s when about fifty British
companies had their regional and local offices in Amman there
is now a much-reduced British business presence. A few British

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