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Source: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=62895
U.S.-Mideast Trade Plummets
(Gulf News) - Middle East trade with the U.S. has fallen by some 20-26 percent since the events of September 11, Molly Williamson, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of commerce, told a Washington conference on U.S.-Arab relations. Overall annual trade between the U.S. and the Middle East stood at $65 billion in 2001. There were two key exceptions: Jordan - where trade has grown by 26 percent in the first six months of 2002, and Morocco.- where trade has grown more than 50 percent.