Committee on Economy and Investment parliamentary that confirmed more than 25 000 plant and factory government Disabled years ago, which reflected negatively on the domestic industry, which represents an important economic tributary of the country, while stressed the necessity of activating the investment and the protection of the domestic product against the indiscriminate importation of foreign goods lousy laws.
He said the economic and investment commission parliamentary member Abdel-Salam al-Maliki, in an interview for the "long", that "more than 25 000 plant and the plant is disabled, which reflected negatively on the domestic industry in the country as a result of lack of activation of the laws that protect the local product."
He added that "uncontrolled border crossings and through which goods and imported goods at very cheap prices are the basis contributed to the recession, the national goods so you must activate the broken laws for years, such as the Consumer Protection Act and the customs tariff and work to close the ports informal and raise fees and restrictions of customs value to prevent the entry of goods the origins of Chinese or poor ones. Other East Asian countries. "
Al-Maliki said that "the duty of the state to cooperate with the business and the Union of Industrialists and all stakeholders in the industrial field to develop economic and industrial sound political plan for the country through the provision of loans to owners of industrial professions so that they can organize their plants because there are a lot of them are disabled, either because the accumulation of taxes imposed on them or the policy of deliberate dumping the domestic market imported goods from poor origins. "
He said, "Our role is to serve as the economic legislation of the necessary laws to support the development of the wheel so we follow the economic plans of the state and study so that we can achieve economic growth in a short period of time and follow up the implementation of laws and the way the ministries concerned."
He stressed that the "Committee for the economy Parliamentary have a follow-up investment plan tasks and ways to implement it according to the law, which includes all of Iraq's provinces, and are continuing with meetings with the relevant ministries in order to stand at the level of their performance, as well as addressing the problems and obstacles in addition to monitoring and follow-up national investment and foreign affairs, and also to propose laws that encourage projects investment in Iraq. "
He noted that "matters relating to the general budget of the Commission on the economy can provide suggestions and recommendations on the work of the national investment agencies, as well as follow-up and to propose laws and to overcome the obstacles that hinder the progress of investment projects in the country in general."
He called for "providing studies and research necessary and hosted ministers and advisers to see the extent of enacting laws that would increase the financial returns in some aspects of the state such as the Ministry of Planning, Trade and Industry and the standardization and quality control and tax to stand up to the reality of the local economy and raise obstacles in the way of its development."
Turn Hana al-Husseini, director of the media and the Ministry of Industry and Minerals said the "long" that "the domestic industry is parked, but there are obstacles facing their work is the most important budget because all the investment projects allocated annual amount is not sufficient, as some companies and laboratories currently operate lagging behind others Stopped for various reasons, for example, petrochemical factories in Basra, which completely disrupted as a result of not providing them by the Ministry of Oil and Gas. "
She explained Husseini said "a product that is distributed in the market is high cost because of the costs prohibitive for raw materials and imported, and the lack of protection of the national product, or the protection of the consumer, where embarked laws since 2010, but it did not work out so far in addition to the lack of government support adequately the Ministry of Industry of all joints task which operates thousands of labor. "
It added that "the Ministry of Industry is working according to Bremer law to now than around the central Ministry of Finance to Resume Production and distribution of profits as companies produce goods and various goods sold various government institutions and citizens at premium prices to return profits are distributed to employees of companies entitled monthly salaries without going back to the Ministry of Finance The financial claim to the ministry assignments. "
She pointed out that "government institutions cooperation with the Ministry of Industry through the purchase of products ministry companies, will contribute to the government sector rotation of the wheel and do not go billions of dinars to the outside through the import of foreign goods to the poor and costly."
Iraqi industry suffered in 2003 to more looting and destruction process in history as not pass the hours on the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in the ninth of April 2003, even the biggest heist in the modern century factories State laboratories lasted for weeks in making the most of the Iraqi industrial establishments just structures began iron and some of them turned into a barren land after completely looted.
Despite the attempt to rehabilitate the Iraqi government and revitalize Iraq's industry over the past years through the allocation of funds and loans to help the Iraqi Industrialists, they have not achieved significant progress, the continued decline in the level of electrical energy, which represents the foundation nerve any processing industry, as well as the inability of Iraqi products to compete with products imported only rarely because of their price and quality licenses.
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