Projects

The External Trade between Yemen Republic and European Union and United States of America

prof. Ing. Saleh Mothana Obadi, PhD.

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• Duration of the project: 2005

  This project was carried out during the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in 2005 at the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

• This project examines the mutual trade relations and looks at the behavior of trade flows between Yemen and member countries of the European Union (EU) and United States of America (USA) during the period of 1991 to 2004. In addition, this study tries to identify the comparative advantage of Yemen relative to EU and USA and the possibilities of increasing the Yemen’s export to the above mentioned trade partners.
  According to the results of the empirical analysis we found that, Yemen has a comparative advantage in relation with EU and USA in a few of commodities (about 5 to 7 commodities), like petroleum and petroleum products (SITC-33) and Fish & crustacean, mollusc & other aquatic invertebrate (SITC-03) etc. We also found that the trade intensity between Yemen and both the EU and USA is lower than it would be expected, in view of the weak exploitation of Yemen for preferential system.

• 1. OBADI S. M. (2005): The External trade between Yemen and the European Union and USA. Working paper (52 p.). The American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Yemen. The project was supported by Andrew Mellon fellowship for the Eastern European countries.
  2. OBADI S. M. (2005): The External trade between Yemen and the European Union and USA. Scientific paper (81 p.) In: The journal of Yemen Center Studies and Research, No. 79. Oktober-December 2005, Sanaa, Republic of Yemen, 313-395.
  3. OBADI S. M. (2006): The Yemen’s Trade Relations with European Union and United States of America. In: International conference Economic Diplomacy in the 21st century, 7 February 2006. ISBN 80-225-2087-X