Publisher's Synopsis
Arab Customs Union is an advanced stage and later after the free trade area already among 17 Arab countries in 2005, and earlier stage is to create a strategy to reach a common Arab market in the year 2020. There is no doubt that speeding up the customs union Arab need for fair competition between the Arab products, but because of the way it was done establish a free trade area and updating raise tariffs from the beginning of January 2005 without taking preventive action during transitional periods, taking into account the insurance of small and medium industries in many Arab States against the risks stages of the shift towards integration, in addition to the direct impact of the expansion on the market, it is expected to be the overthrow of a number of these industries and removed from the productive activity. The research aims to study the impact of the Arab Customs Union on the Arab countries.
