Iraq’s exposure to US securities passed $22 billion in 2021

Shafaq Information/ Iraq’s holding of US authorities securities reached $22 billion in 2021, ranked the thirty ninth of 44 international locations.

The most recent knowledge from the US Treasury Division confirmed that Iraq’s steadiness of US Treasury bonds is $22.502 billion.

In keeping with the Federal Reserve and U.S. Division of the Treasury, overseas international locations held a complete of seven.74 trillion U.S. {dollars} in U.S. Treasury securities as of December 2021.

The bonds embrace long-term ensures and short-term ensures.

In keeping with the US Treasury securities holding, Japan is on the prime ($1,304.040 trillion), adopted by Mainland China, with an publicity of about $1,068.746 trillion on the finish of December 2021.

On the third spot was the UK, with a holding price $647.363 billion.

Eire had 334.325 billion {dollars}, Egypt with 14.3 billion {dollars}, and Uruguay (12.3 billion {dollars}).

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