Wheelers and dealers: customs tariffs will raise the prices of domestic goods and the port of Umm Qasr is threatened
Wheelers and dealers: customs tariffs will raise the prices of domestic goods and the port of Umm Qasr is threatened
04.01.2014 (0:01 pm)
Basra / range Press
The Ministry of Finance, to embrace the implementation of the customs tariff law, excluded that this will raise the prices of goods in the local markets, while traders saw the Wheelers and vice versa, and called for the application of “justice” in the national all border crossing points.
The Minister of Finance Agency, purity of net debt, during a press conference in the port of Umm Qasr, yesterday, and attended (range Press), “The ministry will begin the implementation of the cabinet decision on implementation of the tariff law, and the imposition of duties on goods that are provided through the border crossings different, “noting that” some of the goods that contribute to the activation of the agricultural sector and the industrial and investment will be Mafoh of fees. ”
The Net “The government has given a deadline of three months to determine the feasibility of implementing the law to discuss the observations and the consequences for that and limit the exploitation of merchants have to increase the prices of goods in the local market,” adding that “the fees imposed specific in the range of 5 to 15 percent of the price of goods , does not adversely affect the consumer only if the traders took advantage of that. ” On the other hand saw dealers and carriers of goods and officials at the port of Umm Qasr, that the implementation of the customs tariff “would lead to higher prices for goods in the local market,” displaying “the fear of the possibility of affected ports of Basra, if not applied tariff in the Iraqi border ports all.”
The carrier said the return of Ahmad al-Darraji, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), “The application of the customs tariff law will contribute to the rise in commodity prices in the local market because the tax will be added to the price of the goods,” returned that “the consumer is affected most of it.”
He believed Darraji, that “most of the merchants intend to supply their goods through the ports in the Kurdistan region because it does not operate the law of customs tariff, with facilities in it.” For his part, expressed general manager of the Iraqi ports, Omran Radhi, in an interview to the (long-Presse), “the fear of the possibility of affected port of Umm Qasr in the case of non-application of the customs tariff outlets border all,” and urged “the government application a fair decision on the Iraqi border ports” .
The General Authority for Customs Iraq, announced last Wednesday, she directed all border crossings implementation of the customs tariff law, while the Ministry of Planning and indicated its intention to issuing a list of about 106 goods covered by the tariff has been prepared in coordination with the Ministries of Finance and Commerce.
The Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Ali Shukri, had announced earlier that the tariff include the imposition of a fee of five percent or more of the prices of those materials, and 80 percent of the prices of alcoholic beverages.
The House passed earlier, the customs tariff law in 2010, and was the most prominent justifications released the pricing in line with the reform of the Iraqi economy and the many changes that have occurred in the law.
The law provides for the levy of custom on imported goods not included in the table of tariffs of customs duties, by no more than 20% of their value, while exempt samples and models that are not of commercial value from customs duties, also took into account the law in applying the provisions of the facilities afforded by the law Investment No. 13 of 2006, as amended on imported goods for the purposes of investment projects exclusively, and it comes in order to attract the maximum amount of the investment companies and businessmen to work in Iraq. Iraq was imposed fees Kmarkip on goods according to law 77 of 1955, before it stops all that with the entry of U.S. troops in 2003, to issue a civil governor in Iraq, Paul Bremer, a fee worth five percent on goods entering Iraq, I knew then charges the reconstruction of Iraq .
Basra has only 14 outlets ground or sea or air, which is adjacent to Iran or Kuwait, and the other overlooking the Arabian Gulf, as well as the aerial port at Basra International Airport.
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