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Trade imposes strict procedures in the application of the law of import restriction
07/04/2012 0:00
Confirmed that the move to support the national product and suggested developing a policy for the supply of cars
Baghdad on a conciliator
The Ministry of Commerce to impose tough measures in the application of the law of limitation import, which started since early July this, as submitted a proposal to the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives to form a ministerial committee shall draw policy import of cars.
The Director General of the State Company for Iraqi Fairs of the Ministry of Commerce approved Hussain Sultan at a press conference to explain the system of import license: that the application of import license has been since 2006, but he was limited to agricultural products, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals and dual-use substances that they do not constitute a large percentage compared to large volume of materials imported, so the beginning of July, the application of this system on all materials coming into the country.
He added that the aim of the application of the regulatory and statistical as it will prevent the indiscriminate imports and the entry of non-conforming to the specification of Iraq in coordination with the sector such as the ministries of agriculture, industry, health and the General Authority for Customs and device standardization and quality control that has worked to develop the determinants of the choice of materials which fall within its jurisdiction such as the identification and the Ministry of Electricity for electric appliances required and their specifications in terms of energy consumption and quality, pointing to the formation of cell follow-up with those mentioned for monitoring the implementation of the system and remove all obstacles urgently away from the routine and correspondence. He said exempting imports government after obtaining official approvals from under the holiday for three months has been reported to the General Authority for Customs to allow the release of the material piled up in some border crossing points, indicating that the mechanism of the system are summarized passing of the identity of the importer after providing some requirements such as classifying a single unions as if the Union of Chambers of Commerce or bring papers a statement establishing the company from the Registrar of Companies and then followed by a request for obtaining the license materials they wish to import, which takes one day. called Hussein, all importers and traders to review the company to complete their transactions and get detailed instructions to the issue of leave to does not affect the smooth entry of materials into the country, adding that the department has developed a wages standard for issuing a license is estimated at $ 200 thousand dinars, so it was noted that the increasing applications for import license since the start of application of the system from 50 to 200 vacation, expected to exceed the number of licenses granted to more than 1000 vacation during the period the next few.
He said that a ministerial committee chaired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the membership of several ministries such as trade, transport and planning noticed after conducting field visits to the border and there is great imbalance in some of them enter the material is obtained a certificate of origin and is examined of which called to make recommendations to the stakeholders to put checkpoints after those ports for confiscation or return loads is obtained on the import license or a certificate of inspection and origin. said Hussein told (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network) on the sidelines of the conference set up electronic system for issuing license is connected in the sub-circuit in the provinces of Nineveh and Basra to get rid of the procedures manual has been directed Angels circuit development time extra for the completion of each leave requested on the same day even Aatlko entry of materials into the country, stressing that the adoption of the specifications will be strictly in the entry of materials for consumer protection and domestic production. He noted that the department submitted a proposal to the Committee on Economic Affairs House of Representatives to form a ministerial committee large consists of eight ministries to develop a policy import of cars because of the flooding and chaos in imports exceeds the size of the need for and disproportionate to the capacity of the streets and absorbed and the lack of study of the environmental impacts them, noting that the department has adopted the road instructions regarding the import of cars as it was divided on two categories imports figure can the person from which the import car once a year and imports by the private sector was able to import 25 cars in each vacation.
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