Foreign trade is very important in global economies because of its impact on the sustainability of economic growth by stimulating economic activity, creating jobs and expanding production . On the other side , this policy is a major obstacle to many developing countries and the reason is due to the nature of the economies of those countries because they rely mostly on one or a few economic resources, which makes them rely mostly on exports to that resource while they import most of the needs of their local market Which makes them in a spiral of underdevelopment , dependence and economic exposure, which requires them to break that cycle and the launch of economic development Perhaps one of the most important means to achieve this is direct foreign investment in vital economic sectors in those countries for achieving the objective of diversification economic activity within these countries to meet the need of the domestic market, export production of goods and services to the outside and reduce the idea of dependence on one resource This economic variable is clearly seen in the experiences of a group of relatively recent countries in economic development that have succeeded in creating a fertile ground for foreign direct investment in export sectors, which is a motive for Iraq to highlight this variable and how to deal with it by these countries for the purpose of benefiting Of these experiments and trying to simulate them in the Iraqi economy as a country that is still far from achieving economic development
