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British Business in MENA


There is no doubt that Britain is one of the greatest and oldest kingdoms in the world. This has helped the growth of trade relations between it and all the countries of the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf since ancient times.

There are also archaeological artefacts proving the existence of trade in ancient times between the Kingdom of Britain and some Arab countries, trade between them is not limited to a single supplier or a certain type of relationship, but things between Britain and the Middle East complex and interdependent long since both areas include such as tourism, agriculture and industry has been the trade relations helped having a lot of British investments in Arab lands.

What are the most prominent trade relations between Britain and the Middle East?

The most important fields that have continued so far are oil and petroleum exports to Britain, where there are many prominent companies in Britain, which invest heavily in oil from many Gulf countries such as Qatar, the UK depends on that oil in a large part of the industries within it therefore, it is a permanent ally of those Arab countries and cooperation between them continuously for a considerable period, there are also a lot of areas that trade relations have diversified between Britain and the Arab countries, which had reached the British companies operating within the Middle East in various investments, such as infrastructure for some of Arab States, architecture and design as well as project management and engineering consultancy for many mega-projects that are held on the Arab lands.

Britain's relations with the Middle East have also diversified, including financial investments and British banks in the Arab countries, as well as many legal and accounting companies. In addition, British goods have spread throughout the Middle East, including both cars, goods and famous brands. British companies to invest in the Arab and African market.

The Kingdom of Great Britain is one of the giant countries whose trade relations in terms of exports and imports with all the countries of the world are open economy. Therefore, the Arab countries and the Middle East are among the most important allies in this field. This has been shown through official visits between Britain and the Arab countries. presidents, ministers and dignitaries, all of those visits aimed to get more facilities in trade relations between them and increase transactions and investment projects in all fields, and if we talk about a single Arab country like Qatar, we will find that the volume of trade relations between them and Ratania up to 30 billion euros in the year, so what the size of Britain's relations with Pathe countries in the Middle East.

Britain has recently emerged from the European Union, which has cast a shadow over the nature of the new relations that will be between Britain and the Middle East, will inevitably increase those relations and will increase the volume of business transactions between them, is expected to flourish British investments in the Gulf States and the Middle East, Of the major economies of the world will seek to prove their capacity after the exit from the European Union and will not find a better place than the Middle East to achieve this. It is expected that there will be special relations between Britain and Gulf Cooperation Council countries, which include both Qatar and Kuwait Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman.

Countries such as Egypt also enjoys a share of British tourism to it which proves the extent of the complexity of British relations with all Arab countries, so you must establish laws and agreements in order to facilitate more to deal with the British investment and maintain in order to continue to thrive.

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