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Iranian official attacked Baghdad: We lost the Iraqi market for Saudi Arabia and Tehran to intervene

Iranian official attacked Baghdad: We lost the Iraqi market for Saudi Arabia and Tehran to intervene
 
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Shafaq News / The head of the industry and trade of young Iranian Reza Amidouar Arhashi, that Iran began to lose the Iraqi market in favor of Saudi Arabia, saying that the Iraqi authorities do not allow the entry of Iranian trucks loaded with goods. 
"Iran is losing its economic position in Baghdad and Saudi Arabia is replacing it," he said. 
"The Iranian official accused Baghdad of not dealing transparently in its trade relations with Tehran, saying that the prevention of Iranian trucks increased the cost of trade for Iranian traders." 
He also criticized the military spending in Iraq while Iraq's economic benefits have become the share of Saudi Arabia, "as he put it . 
The Iraqi government has increased tariffs on goods imported from Iran two years ago, and this decision to reduce the export of goods from Iran to Iraq.
The agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iraq on the reduction of customs duties led to the loss of the Iraqi market for Iranian companies. The head of the industry and trade of Iranian youth said that Saudi Arabia is currently providing Iraq's needs of cement after Iran had done so and was stopped because of high customs costs. 
In the past, Iran was one of the major suppliers of cement in Iraq. Abdul Ridha Shekhan, secretary of the Iranian Cement Industry Association, said last year that he was conducting consultations to remove import restrictions on cement from Iran to Iraq, and the problem would be resolved soon. 
For his part, demanded the head of the Industry and Trade of the Iranian youth Reza Amidouar Arhashi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of his country to communicate with Iraq to resolve these problems and said that Iraq's trade policies with Iran are becoming significant losses for Iranian traders.

 
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Iraq’s General Customs Authority yesterday said there was an agreement between the government and Saudi Arabia to reduce tariffs on Saudi goods entering Iraq.

In a statement, the authority confirmed that “the custom duties are fulfilled in compliance with the provisions of the Tariff Law No. 22 of 2010 on all goods and all products,” adding that “there is no discrimination in treatment.”

The Iraqi authority’s statement came in response to the head of the Iran’s Industry and Trade Authority Rida Al-Harashi’s remarks to the Iranian media last Monday, in which he said that Iran “is losing its economic position in Baghdad and that Saudi Arabia was replacing it after an agreement was reached between the two sides to reduce tariffs on Saudi goods.”

 

On 1 April, the Central Bank of Iraq announced a new system aimed at enhancing trade cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

The bank’s governor, Ali Alalak, recently revealed about some discussions that are being caried out between Baghdad and Riyadh on opening a branch for the Trade Bank of Iraqi in Saudi Arabia in an attempy to achieve a strategic partnership in the economic, trade and investment fronts between the two countries.

Relations between Baghdad and Riyadh have improved significantly since last year following decades-long of tensions, which resulted from the Kuwait invasion by the Iraqi army, during the tenure of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s.

Last year, both countries formed a joint commission which has agreed on several bilateral trade deals and approved the reopening of the border crossings between the two nations.

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180419-iraq-denies-tariff-cuts-on-saudi-goods/

 

 

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ERBIL, (Kurdistan 24) – An Iranian official has claimed his country is losing the Iraqi market to rivals Saudi Arabia due to new policies implemented by the central government in Baghdad.

Ridha Tajrishi, Head of Iran’s Industry and Commerce Body, told Iranian media agencies that Iran had started “to lose” the Iraqi market to Saudi Arabia, criticizing new policies implemented by Iraqi authorities against Iranian products.

The Iranian official accused Iraqi authorities of not maintaining transparency in their trade relations with Tehran, noting that Iranian trucks prevented from crossing the border had increased expenses for Iranian traders.

Criticizing his country’s policies in Iraq, Tajrishi said, “We contribute military spending in Iraq while Iraq’s benefits go to Saudi Arabia.”

The Iraqi government has recently increased fees for Iranian products imported into the country resulting in a decrease of Iranian products, al-Sumeriya news reported.

“The agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iraq to lower tariffs led to a loss in the Iraqi market for Iranian companies,” Tajrishi said.

Tajrishi called on his country’s foreign ministry to contact Iraqi officials and resolve the problem, warning the “Iraqi government’s trade policies have led to huge losses for Iranian traders.”

Saudi-Iraqi relations have improved since Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office in 2014, replacing Nouri al-Maliki whose relationship with Riyadh had been strained.

Saudi Arabia also reopened its embassy in Baghdad in late 2015 after it was shut down following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

 

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/240b1eee-f907-4c29-86d1-11b7383d6276

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Iraq responds to Iran on the agreement to reduce tariffs with the Saudi side

The General Authority of Iraqi Customs denied on Wednesday that there was an agreement to reduce the fees with the Saudi side.

This came in the response of the Commission to what the media wanted about the statement of the head of the Iranian Industry and Trade Authority Rida Al-Harashi on Monday in this area.

A statement issued by the Authority said today that it "confirms the completion of customs duties in accordance with the provisions of the Tariff Law No. 22 of 2010 on all goods and all originals and there is no preference on the other hand."

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/04/19/العراق-يردُّ-على-إيران-بشأن-اتفاقية-خف/

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