Economic Commission Member: GOI should explain the reasons for postponement tariff law

Baghdad (news) .. Student member of the Economic Commission for MP / National Alliance / Amer Jassim winner of the Federal Government to explain the reasons for postponement of the Tariff Act of schedule, calling for retreat from the decision to postpone being a Aasb the interests of the local product.   The winner (of the Agency news): The Economic Commission strives to apply the Tariff Act for the purpose of protecting local products and the preservation of the national economy but the government is deliberately not implemented without the knowledge of good reasons to postpone it.   He added, was due to be implemented at the beginning of this year, on time asked the government postponed to the first of July next excuse that its application will surprise traders and companies, which Akplhm big losses, but at the time reported information that (Turkey) has asked the Iraqi government to postpone the practice, which indicates the presence of regional pressure on the government to prevent the application of law to their advantage.   The winner: the economy committee of parliamentary government Stsaúl the reasons for postponing the implementation of the Tariff Act and shall have to give convincing answers because Iraq needed to implement such a law supporting the national economy.   He was the prime minister had agreed at its usual number (27) Tuesday (June 26, 2012) a bill to postpone the application of the Tariff Act when investigating the conditions for its application.   The longer this delay is the third since the law was frozen after the legislation in early 2010 and then released after about a year the Iraqi newspaper, the facts on the sixth of December 2010 to be the date of its application in March 2011. However, the increase of prices in the local markets in conjunction with sustainable political crisis in the country at once without it, which he announced that the Ministry of Finance to postpone action on the law of customs tariff until August 2011.   Then Ministry of Finance announced the second postponement in August 2011, until this year because of the absence of mechanisms of action and high commodity prices in the Iraqi market.   The Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, announced on the eighteenth of March last, for identifying the first of June the current date for the work of the tariff regime in Iraq, he did not work the possibility of postponing it again.   bit.ly/LXnWwk