Industry: Protection 63 national products covering different sectors

Customs duties were imposed on them at 100 percent

The Ministry of Industry and Minerals confirmed its success in issuing a resolution to protect 63 local products representing various national industries after achieving self-sufficiency of the country, while preparing a plan to restore the citizen's confidence in local products. "The Ministry has prepared an integrated plan to upgrade the local product and encourage national industry through 34 production establishments affiliated to the ministry representing various specialties, such as food, construction and leather and textile industries," said the spokesman of the ministry, Abdul Wahid al-Shammari. He added that "his ministry addressed the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, which in turn approached the Economic Committee in the Council of Ministers, which decided to protect 63 domestic products, in order to ensure and ensure production in general and make it highly efficient competing with the imported product, which is often a modest efficiency at the expense of purchasing value on The opposite of the national product." Al-Shammari explained that the protection of the local product is intended to impose customs duties of 100 percent on the imported product similar to the local counterpart, having produced in the country at reasonable prices and international quality and obtaining international certificates with its advantages. He added that the ministry has been exposed and is still facing the major challenges is the existence of hidden hands seeking to bring down the national product in various images through the withdrawal of the product from the market and put it after expiration to promote the culture of importance of imported product and damage to local, The ministry's spokesman said that the ministry's main needs during the current time are implementing the cabinet's decision, which forces the ministries of state to purchase the products of the Ministry of Industry, revealing the cooperation of a few ministries with the decision, namely the ministries of health, interior, defense, oil and electricity. He stressed that his ministry has formed specialized committees to present its products and marketing them to the ministries to encourage the national product which has obtained a number of international ISO certificates, in addition to increasing the customs duties on its imported counterparts, stressing that the industry chose ministries to check their products to ensure their safety or compare them with their importing counterparts To identify the efficiency and consistency of any product within the required specifications. Al-Shammari explained that the ministry has adopted a qualitative and not quantitative approach in production through relying on German, French and British factories to raise the level of production by doubling the production lines that have recently entered the country, as well as the product quality and price reduction.

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