The Middle East has become the largest external supplier of imports to the European Community, and is also the EC's largest export market. Rising oll prices have not only affected the value of EC imports from the Middle East, but have also ultimately determined the ability of the Middle Eastern...

In this paper an examination is made of past trends in Japan's exports to the Middle East as this gives some indication of future export prospects; attention is focused firstly on the destination for exports by country, and secondly on the commodity composition of exports; both have changed...