If the arms industry will not export to severe dictatorships goes missing out on deals worth 36 billion over ten years according to a report.
The investigation to propose stricter rules for exports is also severely delayed, the newspaper reported outside world in a newsletter.
The report would have been completed on Monday, but the final report is now expected only in April. According to several MPs on the committee depends on the controversy, reports the outside world. Difficult questions, like what should be defined as a dictatorship, has stalled.
The task is to suggest how arms exports to dictatorships can be tightened. Some members are worried about the impact on businesses and jobs, others believe that it is of secondary importance.
As part of the investigation, the Foreign Ministry ordered an estimate of what the stricter rules would cost the Swedish arms exporters. According to the calculation from defense research firm IHS / Jane would export to a value of 36 billion absent during a decade of the most authoritarian rule states such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Yemen fell away. About half dictatorships / flawed democracies like Colombia, Thailand and Iraq taken with Sweden will lose over 104 billion over ten years according to the calculation.
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