انعكاسات تنفيذ منطقة التجارة الحرة العربية الكبرى على التجارة البيئية العربية : التحديات و ضرورات التطبيق

الملخص EN

The increasing of the international economic developments, and increasing of the importance of free trade on the international level, and the emergence of economic aggregates in different parts of the world have all participated in increasing the Arab states’ inclination to establish an Arabic economic group, through which they can positively handle these developments.

Therefore, the Arab states, in this respect, have established the Greater Arabic Trade free area so as to improve the Arabic mutual trade exchange conditions.

In 1998, the application of the free trade area started, and in 2005 it came into force by canceling all custom fees and taxes, and also other similar fees, on the goods and products exchanged among the member states.

But in spite of the success possibility, the mutual trade has constituted no more than 11 % of the total Arab external trade, whether during the transitional period (1998-2005) or the time later.

This means that canceling the custom fees was not enough by itself to make big changes and developments in the mutual trade, and there are other factors that in one way or another hindered the flow of goods between the Arab member states.

This study aims at evaluating the effect of applying the Arab big free trade area on the Arabic exchange through analyzing some indicators and identifying the obstacles.

The study ends with some suggestions that might contribute to overcoming these obstacles.