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  1. #41
    Customs tariffs between the necessity of the application and the fear of price increases

    28-12-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    BAGHDAD / Qais chopsticks Photo / Mahmoud Raouf
    According to many specialists and researchers in the field of economic and financial to any country in the world are exposed to (dumping commodity Various) because of the lack of control on the border and the absence of a system of customs tariff system and application safety and quality of goods entering the country, and is the application of the introduction of the customs tariff would limit the entry of goods shoddy Origin and will be directed traders to look for good goods with specifications and standards adopted in all countries of the world, but will contribute to the organization of the national economy and policy-making Kmarkip clearly defined to protect the domestic consumer first, and then achieve both sides of the equation, namely the merchant and the consumer, who discuss about the mechanisms regulating the business process according to economic principles valid within everyone's rights.
    Many questions looking for answers
    Expert Abdul Khaliq said that the law alone can not advancement in both the industrial and agricultural needs to other laws and regulations are complementary to ensure the development of those sectors and work properly, and did not take the law into account the interest in the agricultural sector through agricultural calendar that determine the times of the import of agricultural products in the seasons of scarcity, including entry in the time provided by the local product, which contributes to the development of the agricultural sector and development and raise its ability to compete with the imported product, as many wonders of researchers and professionals about the importance of the objective of the application of the law to impose new customs tariff announced by the Council of Ministers recently .. Asks Abdul Khaliq what Objective The objective of the imposition of customs tariff new?, Is to maximize the revenue of the state or for the protection of the local product?, Is it expected to increase the general level of prices and on all goods, noting that the Iraqi market relies heavily on the imported product, especially for food items, adding questionably what plans and procedures to cope with rising prices and the impact on the poor class?, Is there the ability of the industrial and agricultural sectors to meet the market need? , Is there a product's ability to compete on the local market need and filling .. Is contrary to the issuance of the law with the current negotiations for Iraq's accession to the WTO and stop the issuance of the law?, Whether it is appropriate with the failure of Iraqi industry and the existence of the problems facing the agricultural sector Kahh water and Almmlouhh, whether contrary to this law with other laws as a law of Investment No. 13, and is contributing to this law in reducing the phenomenon of dumping the commodity against Iraq by neighboring countries?
    Implementation of the resolution will happen confusing and expensive
    Economic expert Fadil Ramadan (range) believes that the Iraqi economy is in a state of chaos and confusion to the lack of economic policies, deliberate, and left things to traders and importers of this chaos we see the market saturated with cool types of origins of goods and various goods and this is the ultimate depletion of the economy, the family and the damage to the Status Citizen of living, from buying a washing machine tray stop working after two or three months will have to buy another, at a time when the electrical goods Japanese or European we sold in the markets of bale that we receive from the Gulf states, which is imported only from the origins of solid and are used for years.
    Ramadan expressed the belief that the implementation of this resolution currently happen confusing and expensive in price, because of the lack of infrastructure for local production, both in the public sector or the private and the fact that these sectors are not able to fill the void, calling for stakeholders seeking to promote industries, various Iraqi and development of agricultural production until it reaches markets into a state of self-sufficiency, and when it can be applied to a system of customs tariffs will be the consumer a choice and is not forced to teams in the prices of goods and commodities imported or domestic.
    Economic parliamentary: the law excludes food
    Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, announced the application of the law of customs tariff rate of 20% beginning next year, noting that the law will exclude food. Said committee member Rep. Nora Albjara in an earlier statement that "the customs tariff law will be initiated apply early next year, but will be applied 20% from the beginning of 2014, and added Albjara that activation of this law would best benefit the country economically, pointing out that the law will exclude food only, as it would encourage the local industry to compete with imported materials, the government had announced previously Amadaha to the application of the customs tariff law gradually according to a timetable specific, and confirmed that the law will include some of the goods.
    Implementation of the resolution is not possible
    Citizen Jassim Hassan shopkeeper in Baghdad indicates (range) that the government declares that from time to time on the application of the customs tariff law which confuses the commercial street types, and to my knowledge, the merchant importer pays large sums for workers at border crossing points in order to facilitate the passing of his goods, although having all the required documents from the importer for the purpose of the introduction of the goods, questionably good work you do or the implementation will be carried out in this period? This means as described by Hassan (ignite the market) which means that the implementation of this resolution happen upheaval big in the market, especially that all importers had previously been imported materials, especially the movement of the market stagnate significant because of the instability of the situation politically, security and other things that make the market unstable and durable, Hassan also wonder: Is the decision will be implemented with the start of the campaign, making the market (burning), according to his opinion?!

    Mechanism for the implementation of resolution at border crossing points

    Merchant Ahmed al-Azzawi, wondering about the mechanism of the implementation of resolution across all border crossing points? Indicating (range) to the border crossing points vary between port and the last, you will be charged customs tariffs at border crossing points to the Kurdistan region of tariff itself first? Secondly, you will pay the fees through the circuit specialized in obtaining fees and do not pay any other amounts in border crossings, which are originally lies not control them by imposing (divisor kinder), according to al-Azzawi, which spanned several decades in the country in a critical period for those who take bribes in the era eighties?. Demanding that have specialized in the preparation of Alqguanann and other specialists in this field and the actual real stand on all sectors and agencies that implement this decision, but an invitation to merchants and others trading in matters relating to the importation.

    There is not a complete infrastructure

    Economic expert Hussein Yasiri pointed (range) that the application of the customs tariff law has aspects of both positive and negative, as the law requires globally for two reasons: first, to get additional revenue, and the second to protect the productive sectors in the state, particularly agriculture and industry as well as the presence of a third reason for Iraq It is in order to enter the World Trade Organization, where the state must negotiate with the organization at the level of the drawing Alkmarki imposed, since the level should be in the range of zero to 80 percent, which is lower than the level of taxes in China, which up to a ratio of 115 percent, which you can protect agriculture and industry. Yasiri pointed out that the issue in the country to take other dimensions and that the negative effects of it concentrated in that we are still working the law of the customs tariff of 1984, a law that is very old has not been updated, with different day of imported goods and the forms and types and classes and their contents from those that existed in 1984, as well as that there was no infrastructure for integrated recognition Customs Customs Department itself in the sense they do not have the Angels and the capabilities and expertise needed to implement this law. He Yasiri lack of a suitable platform for the implementation of the resolution, we have no agriculture or industry, local, and therefore what will protect this law, in the sense that it came out of the blue, pointing out that "activate the law will lead to higher prices for imported goods, which will be sensed by the citizen in the near future, where will decrease the level of income without any real action to protect agriculture and industry.

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  2. #42
    A source reveals about the transfer of Ahmed al-Alwani to the Green Zone

    28-12-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Long-Presse / Baghdad

    Early detection, a security source said on Saturday that security forces quoted MP Ahmed al-Alwani list are united to the Green Zone, a few hours after his arrest from his home amid the gray, (110 km) west of Baghdad.

    The source said in an interview with the (long-Presse), "The special force, which arrested the MP Ahmed al-Alwani, the dawn of the day, from his home in the village of Albu Alon, the center of Ramadi, carried by military helicopter to the Green Zone, the center of the capital."

    And came back to the source, who asked not to be named, said: "Alwani be offline at Camp Honor of the Ministry of Defense inside the Green Zone," without giving further details.

    A police source in Anbar province, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The combined force of the army and (SWAT) and a special force coming from Baghdad arrested, at five thirty in the morning, MP Ahmed al-Alwani from his home in the village of Albu Alwan, the center of Ramadi, after clashing with his bodyguards, killing the brother of al-Alwani and wounding a number of his bodyguards. "

    And join al-Alwani, the new coalition is a popular movement in the six cities, "Almentvdh" against the government, on behalf of (the coalition of dignity), the aim of the desire to "change" in Iraqi cities, which saw a movement popularly and "Revolution" on the assumed ordered, after the "failure" of most former politicians and "decline" of their popularity, as stated in the announcement of the coalition in Kirkuk.

    The Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi pledged, in (the eighth of September 2013), the "Accounting" Iraqi List MP Ahmed al-Alwani, if found abusing any component of Iraq, and stressed that the House of Representatives will not remain silent must be liable for any overrun on the Iraqi people, while pointing that the National Conference will be held during the month of September now.

    And attacked MP Ahmed al-Alwani, in a speech to the demonstrators in Ramadi, on Friday (the sixth in September 2013), of whom he called the followers of Iran in Iraq, threatening to cut off their heads without mercy.

    Known member list united Ahmed al-Alwani remarks controversial, and most recently in August 2012 the past, as described Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah as "a liar", which raised the ire of some politicians, where the President of the Liberal bloc Bahaa al-Araji, in (the 30th of July 2012), that Nasrallah "a symbol of Shiites, Sunnis and Christians," because it fought Israel, in what was considered exceeded the Iraqi List MP Ahmed al-Alwani it in support of Israel and made it out on them. among student-Alwani in a timely manner the government to provide protection to him from "threats" suffered because of his criticism of Hassan Nasrallah, while considered that the right to talk about any political figure, downplayed the significance of those threats.

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  3. #43
    Baghdad asks Kurdistan for information on “106 million oil barrels” it says have gone missing 28.12.2013

    A worker adjusts a valve of an oil pipe in Tawke oil field, Kurdistan region, Iraq. Photo: Reuters • See Related Articles
    December 28, 2013

    BAGHDAD,— Kurdistan region reports of their oil output and exports fail to account for 106 million barrels of oil, the Ministry of Finance says.

    The ministry’s audit department has officially asked Kurdistan Regional Government KRG to account for the massive volume of oil it says it has gone missing and which at current prices is worth more than $10 billion.

    “We could not trace 106 million barrels of oil produced by the Kurdish region. They have probably been smuggled abroad,” the department said in a statement.

    The Kurds say they have the capacity to produce 400,000 barrels of oil per day at a time they need about 100,000 barrels a day for domestic consumption.

    Hathem al-Jibouri, an MP from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik’s parliamentary bloc, said he attended several meetings arranged by the Finance Ministry attended by officials from the Kurdish region.

    “We have repeatedly told the Kurds that they still need to account for 106 million barrels of oil,” he said. “The volume must have been smuggled abroad.”

    The Kurds, he said, want to refer the matter to an international audit firm to examine their accounts of oil output in their region.

    However, Jibouri said, the government should not allow “international firms meddle in local affairs because Iraq has its own audit department,www.Ekurd.net which is considered one of the best in the region.”

    The row has delayed budget approval by the parliament with deputies demanding a big slash in the share of oil royalties earmarked for Kurdistan region.

    Kurdistan receives 17% of the hard cash the country ears from oil exports.

    Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said upon his return from the Iraqi capital on Wednesday. "Baghdad is leaning toward resolving the thorny energy and budget rows with its autonomous Kurds"

    Nechirvan Barzani had arrived Wednesday to Baghdad for talks with the federal government on oil and the budget files, and met during the visit, both the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's deputy PM for energy, Hussein Shahristani, and head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim.

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  4. #44
    Iraqi Kurdistan to abandon deal with Turkey's Halkbank 28.12.2013

    December 28, 2013

    ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Reports have claimed that the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government KRG in Iraq's has backed down from using Turkey’s Halkbank as a mediator for transfers in a deal made for oil exports with Turkey.

    Turkey’s Sabah newspaper made the claim after quoting the Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil-based Rudaw website. In a deal made between the Kurdistan prime minister Nechirvan Barzani and Baghdad-based Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki,www.Ekurd.net deals regarding oil will be conducted via a fund created in the United States, not via Halkbank. According to calculations, this means that Turkey will miss out on $11.5 billion.

    Halkbank was targeted in a police operation on December 17 after being accused of breaching international sanctions against Iran.

    After months of secretive graft probes, Turkish police on December 17 detained dozens of people, among them the sons of three ministers and the head of state-run Halkbank, after being accused of breaching international sanctions against Iran.

    Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani agreed with Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to resolve the outstanding issues concerning the issue of the export of oil from Kurdistan region via the new Kurdish independent pipeline through Turkey, National Iraqi News reported.


    Shahristani office said on Thursday that the two sides agreed on the need to be exporting oil produced in Kurdistan region by State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) in accordance with the mechanisms in place to export and pricing of Iraqi oil, and to deposit revenues in the Development Fund for Iraq in New York and distributed in accordance with the annual budget share.

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  5. #45
    Economist confirms “fragility” in the Iraqi market and the trade expects to see a “mobility qualitatively”
    Posted: December 28, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
    Tags: Baghdad, Chapter VII, Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Invasion of Kuwait, Iraq, Ministry of Commerce, Presse, United Nations Security Council

    12/18/2013
    Said an economist, said on Wednesday that the Iraqi market “still fragile” and unable to compete with their counterparts in the region or attract investors, while showed the Ministry of Commerce that it has started a plan that would “set the market and inflation and prevent monopoly,” expected to result soon ” the mobility of the two types, “especially after rid Iraq of Chapter VII.

    This came during a seminar organized by the Federation of Industries of Iraq, today, the Lebanese Club in central Baghdad, with the participation of the Iraqi Trade Ministry and a number of economic experts, to discuss the reality of the Iraqi market, and attended (range Press).

    The economist said, Nafi al-Khafaji, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), “The weakness of government control after 2003, led to an influx of inferior goods from various countries of the world on the domestic market, which led to embarrass her,” pointing out that “the failures of the domestic market is still continuous, as a result of the continued flow of those goods, and the big difference in price, as well as the monopoly that unknown, making it fragile and unable to compete with their counterparts in the region, and repulsive to investors. “

    For her part, the Ministry of Commerce that it began three years ago, to “implement a plan to control the market and inflation and to ensure that the flow of shoddy goods to and prevent monopoly,” expected to “see the market in the coming months mobility qualitatively after rid Iraq of Chapter VII.”

    The agent said the Ministry of Commerce, Walid sweet, in an interview to the (long-Presse), that “the ministry embarked on a plan three years ago, to dominate the market, yielded the results are quite good,” adding, “but that does not negate the existence of some impurities that can not be register or to bear the results of the ministry alone because it shared responsibility between a number of the ministry, which is seeking other for the same goal such as the Ministries of Planning and Interior and others. “

    The sweet, that “the ministry teams and through competent agencies and services, following the daily irregularities in the market despite the delay decisions to be addressed because of the routine followed in some of the competent departments that hinder the implementation of some of its plans to control it.”

    He expected the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce, that “witnessing the Iraqi market in the coming months mobility qualitatively in the buying and selling, especially after rid Iraq of Chapter VII, which reflected negatively on the economy over the past years.”

    The UN Security Council voted in (the 27 of June 2013), a unanimous decision to remove Iraq from Chapter VII after more than two decades of sanctions imposed by the Council which, after the former regime’s invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990.

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  6. #46
    Politician warns International Monetary Fund may intervene because of the huge deficit in the 2014 budget
    Posted: December 28, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
    Tags: Bretton Woods Institutions, Economic, Gross domestic product, IMF, International, International Monetary Fund, Iraq, Member of Parliament

    Business & Finance Friday, 27 January 1 / December 2013 22:51

    Future News / MP for the coalition warned / united / Knight Sangaree the likelihood of intervention of the International Monetary Fund and his imposing certain actions on Iraq in light of the large deficit in the fiscal budget for next year.

    He said in a press statement today that: “As a result of the existence of economic problems in the budgets of previous years and the introduction of a lot of things that we do not have it within paragraphs, led to the accumulation of economic problems have come to the proportion of the deficit in the budget next year, up / 30-35 / billion dollars.” .

    Sangaree and added: “If it continues like this, there is concern that the IMF intervenes and imposes on us certain procedures, such as the intervention of the previously imposed on us by the increase in fuel prices led to a rise in prices in all fields.”

    He continued: “The government should examine the budget in 2014 a thorough study and put points on the letters to be able to pass this difficult stage, especially as we approach the elections, and there are problems on the ground, and we fear that we open the doors hard to shut down.”

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  7. #47
    Parliament raises four proposals raise the participation rate in economic activity
    Posted: December 28, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
    Tags: Economic, House of Representatives, Iraq, Labor force, Poverty, Social Security, Social Security Act, United States

    12/28/2013

    BAGHDAD / JD / .. House of Representatives proposed a number of ways that can contribute to raising the participation rate in economic activity for up to 50 percent through the year 2017.

    A member of the Committee for Economy and Investment parliamentary Abdul Salam al-Maliki told the reporter / JD / The House of Representatives proposed the enactment of Social Security to strengthen the role of the private sector of the systems in the generation of employment opportunities, and securing the appropriate environment to transform the workers in the unorganized sector organizer.

    He said among the programs of the founding of specialized programs to build women’s cognitive and Mharria and to enhance the rates of participation in economic activity, and linking rehabilitation programs and vocational training by the labor market.

    At the time denied the economic and investment commission in the House of Representatives could vote during the current session of the Social Security Act, confirmed that the proposal would reduce the poverty rates in the country to 4%, emphasizing that the Statistics of local and international food security is inaccurate to the lack of a database are relying in the published figures.

    It is noted that the level of poverty in Iraq is 23%, this means that a quarter of Iraq’s population living below the poverty line, of whom approximately 5% in the level of extreme poverty, “indicating that” poverty line includes the basic needs of food and non-food. “

    The House of Representatives has ruled out the possibility of the vote during the current session of the Social Security Act

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  8. #48
    Iraq Draft Budget Littered With Mines Against Kurdistan

    By Aram Kakakhan



    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The draft Iraqi budget for the next fiscal year, which has yet to be sent to parliament for approval, contains several clauses and conditions that could be disastrous for the autonomous Kurdistan Region if the bill is passed in its present form, economists and officials warn.

    For instance, it contains many conditions that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) must fulfill, and stipulates cuts to the 17 percent of Erbil’s share of the national budget if any of these remain unfulfilled.

    “The Kurdistan Region will be at a disadvantage if the bill is passed in its current form,” the KRG’s deputy finance minister Rashid Tahir warned in comments to Rudaw.

    “There are a number of articles in the bill that would cause a big crisis in the Kurdistan Region if passed,” said Ali Hama Salih, MP of the Change Movement (Gorran) in the Kurdish parliament.

    “For example, an article in the bill stipulates that the Kurdistan Region must export 250,000 barrels of oil per day through the Iraqi pipelines, which amounts to $9.125 billion. This amount will be subtracted from the 17 percent budget of Kurdistan if the latter fails to export that volume,” he said.

    “This bill will cause economic and financial crisis if passed,” the MP warned.

    The draft budget contains no guaranteed allocation for the Kurdish Peshmarga forces, an issue that has only been mentioned once in the bill in a very elastic manner.

    “After reaching an agreement between the two Council of Ministers of Kurdistan Region and Baghdad, the salaries and ammunition expenses for the guards of the Kurdistan Region (Peshmarga), will be released in a manner that would not contradict the constitution.” the draft bill states.

    Salih said that another article in the bill says that the Peshmarga forces will receive their budget allocation only after Erbil and Baghdad have reached agreement on the Kurdish force, which he said was far from imminent.

    “Baghdad can easily use this article to pressure the Kurdistan Region during political disagreements,” Salih warned.

    He said that revenues from customs at the border check points in the Kurdistan Region have not been sorted out nor investigated since 2003, “so if it was found out that the revenues were not sent to the Iraqi National Treasury, then that amount would be subtracted from the budget of Kurdistan Region.”

    But Tahir reassured that, “The revenues of customs have been delivered to Baghdad since 2003.”

    The bill stipulates payments owed by Erbil to Baghdad, but not vice versa.

    It allocates 1 trillion Iraqi Dinars as dues to be paid to oil companies working in the Kurdistan Region, and 16 trillion ID for the oil companies in central and southern Iraq. But the Kurdistan Region estimates the fees of the oil companies to be around $3.5 billion.

    Regarding compensation based on Article 140 for resettled Iraqis, no changes have been made and the amount remains at 172 billion ID.

    Cuts to the Kurdistan Region’s budget are mentioned in the bill four times, in case the KRG fails to fulfill conditions of the bill.

    The bill was prepared by the Iraqi government and has not been sent to the parliament yet. It is expected to create many arguments.

    Officials from Kurdistan’s finance ministry describe the bill as laden with landmines against the Kurds.

    “The parliament is not the place to fight over the budget, because the majority will win the vote. The fight for the budget must commence in the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and the Council of Ministers during drafting the budget bill,” Salih explained.

    When finalized, the Iraqi budget for 2014 is expected to reach 174 trillion ID.

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