Will new agreement lead to increase in Palestinian exports?

A new Palestinian-Jordanian agreement will allow the export of goods in small containers to Jordan for the first time ever, which Palestinians hope will increase their global exports.
A worker arranges sacks of potatoes on a pallet at a wholesale vegetable and fruit market in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus September 2, 2012.Once the mainstay of the local economy, Palestinian agriculture in the rocky West Bank is in decline, with farmers struggling to protect both their livelihoods and their lands. Deprived of water and cut off from key markets, farmers across the occupied territory can only look on with a mix of anger and envy as Israeli settlers copiously irrigate their own
A worker arranges sacks of potatoes on a pallet at a wholesale vegetable and fruit market in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus, Sept. 2, 2012. - REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Ministry of Economy announced May 6 that it reached an agreement with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the export of Palestinian products to Jordan in small 20-foot containers via the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge.

Previously, goods would be loaded onto trucks and taken to the Israeli side of the border. There, trucks would be unloaded and thoroughly inspected, before the merchandise would be loaded onto other trucks and taken to Jordan.

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