التجارة الخارجية للعراق و أثرها على بعض المتغيرات الكلية للمدة 2003-2018 : إطار تحليلي

الملخص EN

Foreign trade has an active and important role in a large group of macroeconomic variables.

This effect is practically evident and clear through knowing the measures of trade openness for the case study for this research (Iraq), and thus the impact on the macro variables from the external sector as an inevitable result of the weakness of the productive apparatus in the country.

Among the findings of the research is that the commercial openness in Iraq after 2003, whether with or without regulatory restrictions, does not fulfill its economic purpose unless there is a competitive production capacity that has the ability to meet this challenge.

Therefore the problem of the external sector in Iraq is a structural problem It is not a regulatory one.

Accordingly, there is a need for an open trade policy to be accompanied by support and development of the agricultural and industrial sectors producing goods and services with sufficient quality and quantity to meet the local need, which would contribute to mitigating shocks from the external sector.