Commission: application of the customs tariff requirement for Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization

01/09/2012 11:10

Baghdad September 1 / September (Rn) - The Commission on Economy and Investment parliamentary Saturday clause Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the application of tariff law the government Ajlth to indefinitely.

The Ministry of Commerce announced last year that federal Iraq is working on getting a permanent membership of the World Trade Organization would disrupt the Iraqi economy unless Iraqi consensus economic legislation with controls to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Said Commission decision Mahma Khalil told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "Iraq if it wants to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be applied tariff law inactivated by the government."

Khalil said that the "tariff law that dish will eliminate processes financial and administrative corruption at border crossings and ports (...) there is the desire of the Government to enforce the law gradually over two years."

The team was Iraqi to join the World Trade Organization was established on 13 December / December 2004, and presented a memorandum to obtain membership of the organization on September 16 / September 2005, was adopted Iraq observers in January 24, 2007, and began meeting the first round of the Group work in 2007, followed by a second round of meetings in 2008, and then the third round by the end of 2009.

Iraq seeks to obtain permanent membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) rather than an observer member, as is the case at the moment.
The World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 and includes 147 countries worldwide as permanent members.

The organization aims to create a world economic preserves the rights of the consumer and the product through an international system of laws by hiring full resources of the state and prevent the circulation of goods non-universal impulse.

 

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Kurdistan: political forces will hold a meeting if the return of Talabani

01/09/2012 11:32

Baghdad September 1 / September (Rn) - The Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the House of Representatives on Saturday for a meeting of the political powers will be held if the return of President Jalal Talabani from Germany where he is receiving treatment.

The National Alliance has announced earlier paper for reform in order to resolve the current political crisis in the country, after the efforts of front-confidence motion (the Kurdistan Alliance and the Iraqi coalition and the Sadrists), to withdraw confidence from the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The deputy head of Muhsin al-Sadoun bloc, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "after the return of President Jalal Talabani of travel therapy there will be a meeting of the political powers put it all Securities Reform."

Sadoun said that "the National Alliance did not deliver until now formally political blocs and reform paper prepared during the last period," noting that "the only thing on the political scene right now is waiting for the coming of Talabani."

He said, "The reform will be one of the paper within the Securities other political blocs and that will be addressed during the meeting of political forces."

Insiders say Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the latter initiated a series of quick fixes, including re-former Iraqi army officers to the service and the formation of a committee to reconsider the law of accountability and justice and discuss the possibility of referring the names of candidates for security ministries to the House of Representatives.

The President of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi recently freeze questioning al-Maliki's decision by the political blocs because of the ongoing negotiations.

 

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Presidency of the parliament set Monday as the date to vote on the payment on credit law

 Saturday, 01 September

Twilight News / revealed Kurdistan Alliance, on Saturday, reducing the number of members of the Article 140 of the disputed areas in the Constitution of 38 to 17 members, headed by Kurdish.

The MP said the Kurdistan Alliance Hassan Jihad told the "Twilight News", that "the agreement was to reduce the number of members of the Article 140 of the 38 members to 17 members only," stressing that "This measure comes due to repeated cases of non-achievement of a quorum for the meetings of the Committee because of absent members. "

Jihad said that "the Commission and after a reduction of 8 members of the National Alliance and the six members of the Iraqi List and the three members of the Kurdistan Alliance," he said, adding that "the chairmanship of the Committee will be assigned to a member of the Kurdistan Alliance Muhsin al-Sadoun."

The Article 140 Committee was formed on the basis of the above-mentioned article in the Iraqi constitution and headed in the first stage the leader of the Iraqi Communist Party Raid Fahmi and then entrusted the task chaired by the Secretary General of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Ameri.

Article on solving the problem of the disputed areas between the Kurdistan Region and the federal government in particular and the problems of other disputed areas between the various Iraqi provinces, through the mechanism begins to normalize the situation and pass conduct census and concludes with a referendum in those areas.

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A member of the Economic Committee: tariff law will do the beginning of the year 2013 after the availability of sophisticated electronic devices to check the goods at the border

 09/01/2012

Baghdad (news) .. Female Member of the Economic Committee MP / National Alliance / Amer Al-Fayez, that the tariff law will be implemented early next year, after bringing modern equipment to inspect goods and imported goods at border crossing points.
He said Fayez (of the Agency news) on Saturday: There are several technical reasons prevented the application of tariff law notably the lack of trained personnel and sophisticated equipment, explaining, that Iraq imported electronic devices developed to examine the goods and commodities imported and the process of training cadres working on these devices will be the activation of the Law tariffs at the beginning of next year. / end / 21. d. Q /

 

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