OECD, 'Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits', classification of 26 June 2026, row 175; and 'Country Classification 2026', as of 31 July 2026, Syrian Arab Republic row
Source ID
SRC-420
Citation
OECD, 'Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits', classification of 26 June 2026, row 175; and 'Country Classification 2026', as of 31 July 2026, Syrian Arab Republic row
URL or path
https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/topics/policy-sub-issues/country-risk-classification/cre-crc-current-english.pdf; https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/topics/policy-sub-issues/aid-and-export-credits/cty-class-en.pdf; research/CH10_ECA/oecd_crc.pdf and oecd_ctycls.pdf
Type
The multilateral rule-setter's own classification tables
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2026-06-26
Accessed
2026-08-25
Snapshot
Retrieved 25 August 2026 through scripts/fetch_primary.py, HTTP 200, 766,147 bytes over 6 pages and 577,108 bytes over 10 pages, both valid PDFs. The host passed the shell canary. PUBLISHER TRAP: www.oecd.org RETURNS HTTP 403 TO HTML PAGES but serves PDFs under /content/dam/ without complaint, and the path segment differs between the two documents
Claims
CH10 export credit, CAP-006; issue 63
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
SYRIA IS INSIDE THE ARRANGEMENT'S SYSTEM, NOT OUTSIDE IT, AND THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT CAP-006 RECORDED. Row 175 of the classification of 26 June 2026 reads SYR Syrian Arab Republic 7 7, previous and current, WITH NO PREVAILING NOTE. The scale runs 0 to 7 and 7 is the highest risk category; a dash with a note means a country is not classified, which is the treatment given to high-income members such as Sweden and Switzerland. Syria is classified. It shares category 7 with Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, AND ALSO WITH ARGENTINA AND BOLIVIA, which is worth knowing before the category is described as a pariah tier. AND THE SECOND DOCUMENT GIVES A POSITIVE ENTITLEMENT. Country Classification 2026, as of 31 July 2026, records: Syrian Arab Republic, SYR, Local Costs Category II, subject to the country risk classification methodology YES, TIED AID ELIGIBILITY ELIGIBLE, MINIMUM CONCESSIONALITY 35 PER CENT. The column meanings are the document's own header. WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT ESTABLISH. It establishes the RULES under which the Participants' agencies may support Syrian business, and that Syria is eligible for tied aid at 35 per cent minimum concessionality. IT DOES NOT ESTABLISH THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL AGENCY WILL WRITE COVER, because country cover policy is set agency by agency. SEE SRC-421 AND SRC-422, WHICH BOTH SAY NO