Rationalization of imports is the priority of the Ministry of Commerce at the present time – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The sub-director of the Ministry of Commerce and Export Promotion, Zawawa Yassin, said during his hosting of the “Dialogue Forum,” the first thing we did at the level of the Ministry of Commerce was to fight random imports. Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce.

And the same official explained that Algeria imports what is required in the national market, the thing that is produced nationally and covers the national market.

Regarding the textile and leather division – the same speaker adds – through the statistics provided by the customs authorities, we found that the import bill for this division exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and we also found in particular that the countries supplying these textile and leather products are well-known countries regarding the quality and applied international standards. In the production of these products, and therefore the directives were related to controlling imports through the development of a digital platform at the level of the GEX agency to intervene regarding imports destined for sale on the case, in this context, among the activities and works carried out by the Ministry of Commerce is the purification of importers in this sector in addition to other sectors .

Zuwara pointed out that Algeria has moved from 54,000 importers, importing all goods randomly, to about 14,000 importers registered at the level of the National Center for the Commercial Register.

We, at the level of the Ministry of Commerce – says Zawawa – initiated several years ago to hold several meetings with several divisions of national production. Our main concern was to protect national production on the one hand and rationalize imports of various products and commodities on the other hand.

In his speech about the Textile and Leather Division, the same speaker considered that it is one of the people’s yin, which requires great capabilities and requires many equipment, and also requires the intervention of many sectors, adding that the Ministry of Trade has held the largest number of meetings with representatives of the Textile and Leather Division since 2017 and 2018.