the Arab States established many Conventions and agreements aimed at joint Arab economic in general , and development the foreign total intra-trade, in particular, the last of which was the convention of the great Arab free trade Area,...
morethe Arab States established many Conventions and agreements aimed at joint Arab economic in general , and development the foreign total intra-trade, in particular, the last of which was the convention of the great Arab free trade Area, known as (GAFTA) in the year 1998, which entered into effect implementation in the year 2005, to the aim of opening Arab markets, and the removal of obstacles, hindrances tariff, non-tariff barriers and facilitate cross the transfer of goods, but the actual fact refers to the modesty of the relative importance of the foreign total intra-trade low to the foreign total trade in the region, as it did not exceed that ratio was about 10.7% in the year 2013, and about 11.4% during the period (2005-2013), reflecting low and the paucity of the foreign total intra-trade in the region, research aims mainly to study and analysis of the implications of regional developments on the foreign total intra-trade in the region during the period (2000-2013). The search was adopted mainly descriptive and quantity methods, in addition to the most indicators of efficiency of the foreign total intra-trade in the region. The most results research results in the following: an increase in the value of the foreign total intra-trade in the region by an annual rate reached about 13.7%, and the average of the relative importance of the foreign total intra-trade of the foreign total trade in the region toward 11.41%. Jordan is more than the member States in the concentration of the foreign trade with the other countries in the region, to about 37%, followed by the State of Yemen to about 25.9%. The average indicator of the degree of economic vulnerability in the region about 8%, as the general index of the degree of economic stability of the foreign total intra-trade about 8.26%. The average per capita share of these trade toward 114.1 dollars, equal about 3.96% of the per capita share of the foreign total trade of the States of the region, the index of the diversity of the region reached toward 0.686, it was clear that there is a high degree of concentration of exports in nine countries, Iraq in the forefront where the value of the Index to about 0.981, followed by Libya to about 0.812, while Syria was less than the States in the concentration index to about 0.137, then Morocco to about 0.157. As the average value of the concentration index for the region to about 0.374. 2 Keywords International Trade, Arab foreign trade, the Arab economy, GAFTA.