معضلات تجارة الكويت الخارجية في النصف الأول من القرن العشرين (١٩١۸-١٩٤٥ م)‎

Abstract EN

The study was titled “The Dilemmas of Kuwait's Foreign Trade in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1918-1945), in which it deals with the role played by Kuwait as a trading country that depends on the trade of import and export by land and sea.

The coast of India and the Arabian Gulf; part of it is re-exported by sea to nearby ports, and the bulk of it is re-exported by land to Badia Najd, Hail and Qassim.

This commercial activity has become a great economic return and financial income for Kuwait, rulers and ruled, but it did not enjoy this economic recovery for a long time until it was afflicted by many crises that helped in the stagnation of Kuwaiti trade at the time.

The first of these was the customs crisis between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which was known as the dispute crisis when Ibn Saud prevented his subjects from trading with Kuwait's merchants, which affected Kuwait's markets greatly, and that period became one of the worst periods in the relations between the governments of Kuwait and Najd.