Rewriting the Rules (its line 1497) said UK Export Finance and Germany's Euler Hermes "can provide political risk insurance" against the risks of investing in Syria; both agencies' own pages, archived either side of that book's publication (UK Export Finance 27 September and 13 November 2025; the German federal portal 27 April and 14 November 2025), offered no cover for Syria, and their 2026 pages still do not
Claim ID
ECA-002
Exact or summary claim
Rewriting the Rules (its line 1497) said UK Export Finance and Germany's Euler Hermes "can provide political risk insurance" against the risks of investing in Syria; both agencies' own pages, archived either side of that book's publication (UK Export Finance 27 September and 13 November 2025; the German federal portal 27 April and 14 November 2025), offered no cover for Syria, and their 2026 pages still do not
Destination
Chapter 10; corrections list
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-030 at its lines 1497 to 1499; SRC-421 and SRC-483 with the Wayback captures held at research/CH10_ECA/wayback_2025/
Source type
Published book against the agencies' own country pages, opened at archived captures
Published
2025-10-21
Accessed
2026-09-28
Measure and scope
The agencies' published country cover positions for Syria at the capture dates; not a statement about any individual underwriting decision
Known conflict
The UK Export Finance 2025 captures do not yet carry the 2026 page's later wording; the prose says the no-cover entry stood before and after 21 October 2025, not that the page was unchanged
Specialist
None
Downstream
Chapter 10's export-credit passage and the inconvertibility instruments; the corrections list