August 5th, 2015
BAGHDAD
Economic Commission parliamentary revealed, for the non-application of the customs tariff, which legitimized the Iraqi Council of Representatives law caused by the presence of influential political parties in backed by political parties, the state is trying to impede the application of this law to possess private companies are entering the goods at very low prices.
He explained Economist that "the law will not do because of all the current circumstances through which the country will not be the availability of suitable activated environment, pointing out that" this is not the time for more than add new burdens on the Iraqi citizen.
According to the economic and investment commission member of the parliamentary Nora Albjara that "no the application of the tariff law which legitimized Iraqi Council of Representatives to the presence of influential political parties in the state backed blocks and large parties impede the application of this law.
She Albjara in a statement to the newspaper's new '' morning '' that "the tariff law was not enforced at border ports in Basra province Kurdistan because of the province and the region's commitment to this matter in the past period, noting that "the lack of control of the competent ministries on an expired materials coming into the country has increased the non-application of this important law."
confirmed a member of the Committee of Economy in Parliament that "the beneficiary of the non-application of those this Law owns companies importing goods at very low prices, pointing out that "the ministries of health, trade and planning is to follow up on the entry of goods.
through standardization and quality control and materials testing non-human consumption and control the Registrar of Companies device on the one hand to give the official vacations to practice the profession.
She explained Albjara that " Law tariff although it contains a negative impact on the citizen for a certain period by increasing the prices in the markets, but the implementation is very important to activate the economic sectors and creating competition between foreign and domestic products.
It continued that "the application of the tariff law must be preceded by the adoption of legal protection of the product and the protection of Consumer facilitate law in an easy and smooth application. "
Albjara added that "that represent the decisions of the government is very weak from some ministries and directorates affiliate and this in turn is in the field of corruption and non-negligent and corrupt accounting."
For his part, economist Abdullah al-Jubouri that "the law will not do because of all the current circumstances through which the country has not the availability of suitable activated environment, pointing out that "this is not the time for more to add new burdens on the Iraqi citizen and increase taxes and fees the size of what sets of goods into the country."
Jubouri said the newspaper '' New Morning '' that all tax devices in the tax departments and customs lacks the mechanisms of sound through which sustenance to perform its functions properly.
And that "all regulatory agencies in health, commerce and planning flaccid and unable to exercise its work because of the current situation," and urged "not to activate this law at the moment and postponed until for economic stability and security, political and activate all the border crossing points."
He continued that "the application of the tariff law at the present time would not be feasible because of the lack of local product's ability to compete with his counterpart importer."
customs and tariffs are taxes imposed on goods imported by the state from another state, and relies several tariff countries to protect the industry from foreign competition by raising prices of imported goods, so the tariff encourage local industries to increase production, and forced citizens to pay higher prices if they wish to imported goods.
and adopted the Ministry of Finance new customs duties on imported goods, and the move sparked mixed reactions among economists, investors and traders in the area of its effect in reducing the entry of imported goods and high prices.
The Ministry of Finance on December 30 announced, 2014, that the imposition of customs duties on goods imported will be starting from 2014, by no more than 20% of their value, indicating that the fees will be imposed in all border crossing points, including the Kurdistan region.
The Council of Ministers decided, in (January 7, 2014), modified its previous decision and implementation of tariffs on stages, and between that would not include food, clothing and construction and agricultural requirements and materials related to domestic industries.
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