Syria Reported to Be Trading With Iraq
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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Syria has opened two border crossings with archrival Iraq to allow limited trade, the Middle East Economic Survey reported Monday. The trade would seem to violate U.N. trade sanctions.
The survey, a respected oil weekly, said Iraq’s trade with Syria appeared to have started in December with a shipment of petrochemical products worth about $15 million. Most of the trade via the two border crossings so far consists of exports to Iraq from Syria and Lebanon, “whose goods have been increasingly evident in Iraqi markets lately,” the survey reported.
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