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Qatar penalties carry risks for both sides

The Arab quartet which cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5 will find it difficult to significantly increase penalties against the world’s largest gas exporter without hurting their own economies

Quartet: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have threatened additional punitive measures against Qatar

Gulf Co-operation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE

LIBYA
EGYPT
SYRIA
IRAQ
IRAN
KUWAIT
SAUDI ARABIA
UAE
YEMEN
OMAN

BAHRAIN
SAUDI ARABIA
QATAR
Turkish base
Doha
Al Udeid U.S. base
30km 20 miles

Qatar’s exports: $79.87 billion (2015)
Japan $15.62bn
South Korea $15.50bn
India $9.96bn
China $5.14bn
Quartet $5.49bn

Qatar’s imports: $34.69 billion (2015)
China $3.51bn
France $3.23bn
UK $3.08bn
U.S. $2.96bn
Quartet $4.95bn

QATAR
Population 2.6 million
Qatari 12% 313,00
Migrants 88% 2.3 million
GDP $152.5 billion
Highest GDP per capita in world $58,650

Sources: OEC, MIT, Priya DSouza Consultancy 
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