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New customs tariff law and the protection of the local product
Date: Monday 30/4/2012 7:58
Part II
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reducing flood the market with inferior products suffered what the Iraqi people suffered from deprivation and the many pressures prior to April 2003, and became well-known reasons, repeated boring and unjustified and illogical. As a result, were allowed to import random, bringing Iraq Mekph to assemble all that is old Ogt of goods and services and the different methods of exploitation,
Taking into account the economic situation, social and psychological for the Iraqi people in a timely manner deprived of all the gains of modern life free and dignified. Despite all that the Iraqi citizens felt the great change in the possibility of receiving a cover part of the requirements and needs of everyday goods and services. The Iraqi market is full of different kinds of goods, including the poor does not mean dumping the scientific and economic sense. The term dumping his manifestation in its meaning and there are specific techniques and to take appropriate measures to fight it. That means dumping marketing commodity at prices lower than those for control of the internal market and its monopoly in the end. Or export to foreign markets at prices sometimes less than the prices for the cost of the exporting country of the commodity as a result of financial support, and other methods of support of the governments of the exporting country. There are legal means recognized internationally for the protection of the importing country for the local production of dumping operations, including the imposition of customs duties on such goods, or file a lawsuit on the source of dumping. In Iraq, there is no law to fight against dumping or a monopoly, not even a definition of dumping and methods of fighting and the protection of the domestic product of it. The question is there an actual dumping operations in the Iraqi market or that the reason is the high production costs compared to the costs of local production in the exporting country. In order to protect local product from the operations of dumping must be goods produced locally similar to the imported goods, and that there is clear evidence of a case of dumping in order to take appropriate measures to fight it.
that the high production costs in Iraq resulting from various factors, does not mean that there cases of dumping, and the imposition of customs duties on all imported goods will not in any way to protect domestic production, if any, of the process of dumping, but it will, either to raise the prices of imported goods and domestically produced, and this is what hurt consumers and reduce the ability purchasing power of the citizen, and thus reduce the real value of income, especially for people with limited income. And either to import goods the lowest quality and price in order to meet the request of community groups with limited income and destitute.
that the process of securing item with appropriate specifications for the Iraqi market in order to protect the consumer of goods harmful and unfit for consumption, requires above all the existence of such specifications, and then observe the access to these goods that are consistent with or exceed these specifications. It is therefore necessary to organize and control the process of foreign trade and the arrival of goods to Iraq from all border crossings and to allow control over such work. Well done and the Ministry of Commerce if they applied the system to obtain import licenses for all imported goods and the provisions of control over the application of specifications and standards of Iraq and the world on imported goods, including the method of transport and storage of imported goods. This requires the cooperation of all relevant authorities and the great effort of the Ministry of Finance in two directions, the first direction, strengthening the border of modern technology, and the second the fight against financial and administrative corruption at the border. The practical experience of previous years says that the official authorities themselves have got on the goods imported is consistent with the specifications and standards of Iraq. There are many examples on goods imported to cover the needs of the ration, medicines, industrial materials and other food.
Finally we can say that the Law on customs tariff new applications is not going to get the result envisaged by announcing the official about it, and it falls within the solutions improvised, is studied thoroughly studied, and instead will to the complexity of the economic situation and living standards year and will lead to undue pressure on the Iraqi citizen.
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