Global Trade Alert
Global Trade Alert

Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain: Imposition of economic embargo on Qatar

Announcement

05 Jun 2017

In June 2017, four Arab states (Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) imposed an economic embargo on Qatar due to political motives. 

Update:

In January 2021, four Arab states (Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) lifted the economic embargo imposed on Qatar in 2017.

Source

Sign in to access

Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

0 in force

Implementation date

05 Jun 2017

Revocation date:

05 Jan 2021

Import ban

On 5 June 2017, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain announced the cut off diplomatic ties with the State of Qatar. The cut of diplomatic ties included an economic embargo on Qatar t...

Sign in to see more

Threads

See all

This state act is not part of any Thread yet.