الأربعاء 5 آب 2015 Wednesday 5 August 2015
Basra
Issued Basra Governorate Council , on Wednesday, a decision to not to apply tariffs in the incident in the province of border crossings law, so as to cause "damage" economic include high prices.
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the follow-up assignments Ahmed Al Sulaiti in an interview with Alsumaria's News, "The Council voted during its regular weekly on the decision not to apply the tariff law No. 22 of 2010 as amended in all, located in the province of border crossings," noting that "law enforcement During the past few days has caused injury border ports paralyzed, also resulted in a rise in the prices of many goods in the local markets, including basic food items. "
He Sulaiti, which is the head of the Badr in the provincial council, that "law enforcement in Basra border crossings and not to apply it in within the Kurdistan region of border crossings is unacceptable," adding that "this case causes the reluctance of traders and importers from the introduction of goods through ports maintain and resort instead to the region ports to avoid paying large duty-free, which leads to stagnation of commercial traffic and affected the economic situation in Basra, and in return the Kurdistan turned into a free trade zone. "
The President of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the follow-up to the allocations that "the Council decision is binding for all employees at border crossing points," adding that "in the absence of implementation of the resolution, the Council will have to apply force."
He announced the Basra Governorate Council, said on Wednesday that the land and sea border crossings was hit within the last few days almost completely paralyzed and reduced revenues to the lowest level as a result of application of the new tariff law, with the federal government and the House of Representatives called on to stop the implementation of the law until amended, and pledged to the Kurdistan region to abide by him.
The Basra is the beating heart of the Iraqi economy, it has five active commercial ports, the oldest port near the stronghold of the city center, and the largest port of Umm Qasr, which was Shatrah in 2010 to two ports, one north and one south, also has to maintain the implementers border crossings onshore, Safwan port with Kuwait, and port Shalamjah with Iran, as the local government is trying since the middle of this year for the opening of territorial access another from Iran.
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