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Government and popular consensus to defer the implementation of the tariff law
14/05/2012 0:00
Agreed on the importance and differed in the timing of
Baghdad Yasser incumbent - Hussein Tgb Tamimi
covered the economic seminar all aspects of the law of the customs tariff is hoped the direct implementation the end of next June, where the divided opinions of the participants of the representatives of legislative and executive powers of parliament and government as well as business between pro-and anti-timing of this the law.
symposium organized by the Council of the Iraqi National Business and was led by Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh spokesman for the government was characterized by transparency and disclosure about the advantages and disadvantages of law at the present stage and impartial Chair, although he represents the government.
All Show view and there was a consensus on the importance of tariffs in the fact that represents an additional resource of the budget and then protecting domestic production and make it a competitor to the importer but a row erupted in the timing of implementation of the law which was launched in 2010 and for implementation, which was scheduled in late March of 2011 and its implementation has been postponed to June 30, 2012 What's New in the topic? This is taken up through the presentation of the House of discussion is serious, bold and scientific about it and before the show that it must be noted that the seminar also dealt with issue of the benefits of the requirement of certificates of inspection on imported goods, because it is relevant tariff so it has hosted the seminar, Director General of Customs and Chairman of the Central Agency for inspection and quality control as the concerned two issues.
the chance of success the law
at first signs of the President of National Business Council Ibrahim al-Baghdadi a key question that what the chance of success to begin the implementation of the tariff law, which is between the corner of the implementation and the success or failure of inspection requirements on goods mechanisms that are currently installed, then invited the Director General of Customs Munther Abdel Amir Asad and the President of the Central Agency for inspection and quality control, Saad Abdul Wahab as represent thoughtful presidents in the seminar and then called d. Ali al-Dabbagh to manage the symposium.
the beginning of a Director General of Customs Munther Abdel Amir Assad, who reviewed the subject in detail, when he referred to the importance that Iraq shall have the law of the customs tariff, similar to neighboring countries and the world and promise to the case of a civilized contribute to the organization of entry of goods imported into the country, so as to provide revenues of quality to the budget.
timely
and pointed out that the organization of this symposium came at an appropriate time before the enforcement of Law No. 22 of 2010, noting that Iraq has no tariff law after Bremer suspended the law in force at the time. He noted that the main requirements to join the World Trade Organization «wto» which among its first steps of a law on customs tariff.
He recalled how prices rose in 2011 when he approached the implementation and provoked the citizens and merchants alike prompted the government to postpone implementation of the law in the hope of giving opportunity for industry and agriculture to get up and recover in order to contribute to the competition importer, but backed off without advancing any move.
revenues simple
and explained lion that the revenues derived from customs in 2011, which was up to 500 billion dinars, which account for well (3) per thousand in budget revenues any Atsawi something in case if this law applied to Margin reached a trillion and 260 billion dinars, ie, that the contribution rate will remain very simple .. We added with the application of law, provided that does not translate to the burdening the citizen and concluded by saying that the Commission has completed its preparations to the fullest through the introduction of workers in the advanced courses for law enforcement, but he pointed out that the most important thing is not the collection of revenue as much as we need to protect the economy and the product national, and said I am with a law but I'm not with the timing of implementation.
Then came the role of Chairman of the Central Agency for inspection and quality control, Saad Abdul Wahab introduced the reality and the problematic of inspection and quality control in the country, pointing to a lack of laboratories in Iraq, prompting the device to contracts with the two world wars for testing.
losses traders
through the course of discussions it became clear that the screening procedures resulted in the complexity of the entry of the goods and cause the attainment of losses to the traders and the trader is not willing to carry the amount paid to reflect them on the citizen and that lead the result to influence the citizen consumer that the presentation by the head of the Baalmah and transparency of payment Chairman Skinner to wonder about the possibility of the device in overcoming these obstacles and times to do so came to answer by the President of the device is misplaced because he spoke Baalmah superior for standardization but had no response to what appears, On the possibility of overcoming the obstacles promised to solve them within three months and the contract with additional companies and expanding circles examination of local, but he pointed out the issue very important in the implementation of these circuits to the inability to own land in some provinces and seems that the problem is bigger than the possibility of the device.
border informal
conclusion drawn by the chairman of the Central is that the possibility of device limited and requires expansion abilities to cover all imported goods, pointing out another challenge for outlets border informal and its impact on the performance of the device and enter MERCHANDISING poor are not subject to inspection, and this challenge is the largest in the failure of the process of standardization and quality control and out of their ability and capacity.
After this offer rapid and extensive open door interventions and discussions of the participants, which turned in some of the questioning and interrogation of stressed and attract, but the result was a true testimony to the implementation of democracy in Iraq, where the majority is silent in the past of the times, the direction of the laws there.
and less that is said about this practice, which reflected the keenness of everyone to find a real solution to the problem of large related citizens as well as the merchant and the country's economy it's a case of civilization, because everybody and that they differed in the analysis and insights, but they are trying to find the best solution and that is what brought to the seminars economic recipe for success in dealing with such sensitive issues and the task.
first interventions was to the legislative authority, where the parliament was here in this symposium, and pause over tariff law which insisted on its implementation on schedule on June 30, 2012 relying on the importance of law in the protection of national products and the national economy and the citizen and the multiplicity of revenue.
additional resources of the budget
by the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Haitham Jubouri pointed out the issue very important when pointed to the need to create additional resources for the budget and expressed his concern if the exposed oil prices to collapse, comes the insistence of Parliament on the implementation of the law on time, but he pointed to the need to modify the proportions according to the needs of the citizen and the exclusion of some goods in the tariff that are relevant to the needs of the citizen basic and warned that one of the reasons price fluctuations of foreign exchange is near the time of implementation of the resolution, where shares in the increased demand for the dollar prompted the merchant to import goods through the (3) months past the equivalent of the needs of the country's (23) years, but he believes that the tariff helps to stabilize the market.
called Jubouri the need to include a tariff of all border crossings and in coordination with the Kurdistan region and about the lack of laboratory standardization and Quality Control proposed investment of testing laboratories of the universities in order to reduce the periods the entry of goods and not to influence the citizens.
border ports unable to
either member of the Iraqi Business Mahdi Al Shammari said that he through our relationship directly with the nature of the border crossings, we find it is unable to apply the law of the customs tariff to the presence of defects in the mechanisms of the ports in all joints, without exception, calling for the need to change all cadres fully after the creation of new cadres trained is able to provide world-class, and provide them with iPods examination, sonar and laboratories to accelerate the screening process without delay, and noted that he supports the law and prepared something very important, but the problem lies in the mechanics of the application as we do not have the mechanics of the Court to enforce the law.
how to maximize resources and protect the production?
here came the intervention d. Ali al-Dabbagh, who pointed out that there are real problems at border crossing points of formal and informal, as well as in ports and in rail and repeat the question how to maximize resources and protect the national product.
where national production?
intervention other was General Manager of Trade Bank of Iraq Hamdiya dry, which raised the subject very important when asked for any product of a national talking to impose tariffs on goods and commodities, which in turn will be reflected negatively on the citizen, and said rather find a treatment of the current situation for both the industrial and agricultural, if we want to protect the product must support the industry and agriculture in sequence and then impose tariffs and concluded by saying: I am against the timing of the implementation of the tariff law, but if the repair status of the local product and provide strongly.
quarantines and screening devices
and other intervention for the National Business Council president Ibrahim al-Baghdadi asked where do we have a healthy grooves in the border? Do we have scanners at the border? He pointed to the intervention Dry has said how to handle the neighboring countries with the support of national products in Turkey, for example 4 months depends corn oil domestic and 8 months, imports and thus achieves the balance and called to benefit from the experiences of States in the imposition of tariffs.
challenges and big problems
and through the debates and interventions A number of members of parliament and government officials, businessmen, traders and private sector, it became clear that there are many challenges in the forefront of many problems at border crossing points and the inability to control all goods entering the country and that tariffs tend to raise costs on prices, which hurt the citizen as surely as the equipment testing and standardization is not sufficient at the present time .. As a result, all of these reasons was the consensus on the need to delay of the law to another term on the concomitant activation of the productive sector domestic industrial and agricultural including position to achieve the rates of production of 50 percent of domestic demand, and so they can be the application of law gradually until the stability of the domestic production or the reduction of tariffs for the needs of that are relevant to the basic needs of citizens and exempt goods and food commodities from the tariff, and the conclusion that the delayed implementation of the scales is most likely the largest and certain of the meeting, with implementation and the impact on the importance of a law of the tariff but the difference is not only in timing.
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