Download Jordan is awash with used cars. They have been imported from around the world by dealers tempted by the fat profit from selling them on to Iraq. The trade has clogged up Jordan's only port of Aqabah. At free trade zone outside the industrial city of Zarqa there are row upon row of Mercedes Benz, BMWs and other cars favoured by the wealthier drivers of the Middle East. But the trade was thrown into chaos last month when the Iraqi government abruptly announced it was banning the import of cars manufactured before the year 2000.
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