07/20/2011 11:49
With / Baghdad
said the report prepared by a group of "minimum" international consultancy to enable Iraq to attract about $ 45.6 billion in foreign investment. The report said that foreign investment is recovering in Iraq, as fueled by growing confidence in the stability of the country, noting that the number of transactions of foreign investment on its way to double this year . P in half the first of this year , enabling Iraq to attract about $ 45.6 billion in foreign investment, and about $ 3 billion in the other half of the year.
The report also pointed out that U.S. companies acquired last year to 4.7%, while the share of Crka T. French of foreign investment in Iraq, 9.9%, according to a report of "minimum" . According to the report, South Korea was the largest foreign investor this year, representing about 24% of the money foreign flowing to Iraq .
In the meantime, the director of emerging markets in the "minimum" Mr Nicholas said the U.S. companies want to be more distant from the risks of their European counterparts, and their regional counterparts.
Quoted by the newspaper " USA a j Today "U.S." for the Vice President of Middle East affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Lionel Johnson as saying "We have invested a lot in Iraq over the past decade, either blood or money, and it is really unfortunate if the trading partners in this type of investment, which is to be our advantage. "
The paper points out that the interest in U.S. trade is increasing. Took office as Iraq's commercial attache in Washington, approximately 2.251 a request to do business in Iraq in the first half of this year , compared with 1.369 in the same period last year.
According Commercial Counselor of the Iraqi United States Nawfal al-Hasan that U.S. businesses need to re-evaluate the Iraqi market and a new vision for the year 2011, not the eyes of the 2006 and 2007, adding that "the Iraqi market is growing rapidly, U.S. companies face the risk of losing opportunities. If America still waiting for such opportunities will be lost. "completed
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