international arms trade in 2006
msr - The recently submitted report of the U.S. Congress to the international arms trade in 2006 reported a sales decline of 13 percent compared with 2005. World trade volume from this sector has decreased from 46.3 to 40.6 billion U.S. dollars.
U.S. defense firms dominated despite a decline in the amount of 3.4 billion dollars with a share of 16.9 billion U.S. dollars approximately 42 percent of the scene.
Russian arms companies increased their international trend against the global arms sales to 8.7 billion U.S. dollars. This corresponds to a global market share amounting to 21.5 percent.
The UK increased its international arms deliveries to 200 million U.S. dollars to 3.1 billion U.S. dollars, making it the world's third largest arms supplier. Nevertheless, decreased the arms deal of the four largest weapons states of Western Europe (GB, F, D, I) from 10.9 billion in 2005 to 5.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2006, a decrease in the global defense business of 34.4 19 , 1 percent means.
No claim of the U.S. Congress - and not the federal government dt, but mean
- No War arms trade without permission from the United Nations.
- No weapons production without permission from the United Nations.
- All Weapons of war under the command of the United Nations.
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