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To reform the commercial sector
BAGHDAD - Hussein ثغب Tamimi
urged board member Baghdad Chamber of Commerce on the need to work hard to create a work environment conducive to activate joints economy productivity and service, noting that the role of the private sector must be a pivotal role in economic development, especially as the country lives in stage the transition towards a market economy.
said Alaa Al-Nouri in an interview (morning): The private sector is one of the tributaries President of the national economy and promote evidence on year growth for the country's economy, pointing to the need for visions of a clear economic support this sector and raise its importance in local economic activity, He pointed out that a very small contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) during the last period ranging from (1.7 percent - 2.8 percent) during the period (2002 - 2008) was due to the weakness of support for this sector.
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and Nouri addressed the importance of the process economic reform in terms of the legislative environment governing the business within the country. He said: preferably in the formulation of laws specialized work-trade there will be a role for the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce projects in preparation of legislation, laws and resolutions regulating economic activity, indicating that most of the economic laws currently before the House of Representatives did not participate Union and the room in the formulation and develop ideas and visions of the commercial sector private sectors in the development of the regulatory environment in accordance with the developments in international economic and trade. freedom of trade and pointed out the importance to reconsider the law of commercial agency No. 51 of 2000 for being one of the important laws governing the process of trade and economic, which needs to reconsider a lot of paragraphs, especially that the country is going through free trade and follow market mechanisms, which require direct dealings between the Iraqi trader and trading agents Iraqis on the one hand and between their foreign counterparts on the other hand must be the law of commercial agency in line with the context of the foreign investment law No. 13 of 2006, as amended, and opens the way for free trade without imposing harsh conditions is familiar in the business. continued Nouri saying: Campus Customs Iraqi suffering many problems due to lack of infrastructure that regulate flow of work it in accordance with international standards, so it must reform his administration to increase efficiency in the performance of customs through the computerization of customs procedures. encourage the return of funds He pointed to the importance of issuing bills reform of economic activity such as the Law on the Protection Iraqi products and trade law and freedom of intellectual property, as well as the law of anti-dumping duties and the law of cities and industrial complexes, in addition to amend the investment law No. (13) for the year 2006 by adding a special paragraph for the granting of privileges and facilities to support the return of the owners of capital money from traders and industrialists and investors who have emigrated, especially they have the capacity to rebuild their businesses in addition to what they have gained from the experience of modernity and technology and inform them of the international economic developments. domestic product and pointed out the negative effects of the policy of dumping commodity that still cast a shadow on the Iraqi market after the hurt local products to its inability to compete with imported, especially after the lifting of all forms of government support for agricultural and industrial sectors and the resulting increase production costs, and hence the need for a special laws to prevent dumping and protect national industry, pointing to the importance of the organization of border crossings in terms of buildings and personnel and equipment and laboratories as befits the size of the Iraqi economy and activate their role in order to be a safety feature to prevent the entry of shoddy goods and provide a smooth flow of high trade exchange and out of the dire situation faced by these ports. free zones Nouri called for the development of the free zones of Iraq, which could be as successful as areas (Safwan, Trebil , Mandali, etc.) as well as the areas of the current three that are created on the basis of new legislative and regulatory and clear goals are consistent with the philosophy of trade liberalization and activating the role of the General Authority for the management of free zones to be more efficient to attract investors in those areas, in addition to the coordination and cooperation between the Ministries of State Economic such as the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Planning and Development Cooperation, in addition to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture to support national development and to ensure industrial enterprises and commercial phantom and disposal in addition to the establishment of the Department of Industrial Development and banks of industrial and agricultural support national production. development banks said Nouri that it requires a process of reform the financial and banking to develop the work of banks in line with global developments in banking performance, which must be consistent with the needs of the stage through which our country where notes the inability of the banking sector on the use of the money supply owned in granting credit facilities and must also involve private banks in foreign trade financing through letters of credit for export. tax reform and student at the end of his speech the need to reform the tax system as you see the room that there are large segments of the traders and owners of companies have been damaged as a result the situation is natural suffered by the country where I went Baghdad Chamber of Commerce to call to suspend meet taxes and fees imposed on merchants and businesses 5 to 10 years as a result of exposure the main markets in Baghdad to fires and acts of terrorism have led to cause damage to many merchants, either in their stores or commercial property.
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