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Minister: A plan to revive 17 factories in Iraq

Minister: A plan to revive 17 factories in Iraq
Iraq
 

 

Mubasher: The Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz, announced that 5 new factories will soon be opened.

Manhal Aziz said in a statement to Al-Iraqiya News, which was followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), today, Sunday, that changing the exchange rate will allow competition to the local product.

Aziz added that the ministry began with a real plan to revive 17 factories that were previously idle, and succeeded in opening 12 of them, while 5 others will be opened and restored to work within the next six months.

He pointed out that, after 2003, the ministry had been marginalized, in addition to the great destruction of the infrastructure and many production lines, noting that it "owns 225 factories today, out of which about 83 are completely idle."

And that "the ministry's plan is to revive these factories, employ manpower and increase national production."

Aziz continued, "The change of the dollar exchange rate provided an opportunity for the Iraqi producer to be a real competitor, pointing out that the ministry with its new plan greatly supports the private sector for its role in reviving the national industry."

And, and that "there are foreign and regional companies express their desire to enter and cooperate in the Iraqi market because of this increase in market prices, which leads to a kind of economic feasibility in establishing these factories inside Iraq."

Aziz pointed out that "the government is seeking to put in place a real law for border crossings and set fees and taxes on products to find real ways to market inside Iraq within the controls and laws supporting the protection of the national product."

He explained that "there is an agreement and cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and the Center for Privatization and Quality Control to develop a directory of Iraqi products and protect them, and put large fees on them. These materials must cover the market need and be of a high level of efficiency and quality and have a competitive price in the market."

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On Sunday, the Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz, announced a plan to revive 17 factories, confirming the existence of 83 out of a total of 225 factories in the different governorates.

"The ministry started with a real plan to revive 17 factories that were previously idle, and it succeeded in opening 12 of them, while 5 others will be opened and restored to work during the next six months," said Minister of Industry Manhal Aziz.

He added, "After 2003, the ministry was subjected to marginalization, in addition to the great destruction of infrastructure and many production lines," noting that "it owns 225 factories today, out of which around 83 are completely idle."

And that "the ministry's plan is to revive these factories, employ manpower and increase national production."

Aziz continued, "The change of the dollar exchange rate provided an opportunity for the Iraqi product to be a real competitor, pointing out that the ministry with its new plan greatly supports the private sector for its role in reviving the national industry."

And, "There are foreign and regional companies that express their desire to enter and cooperate in the Iraqi market because of this increase in market prices, which leads to a kind of economic feasibility in establishing these factories inside Iraq ." 25 n

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Al-Kazemi: We are working on preparing the infrastructure to revive the Iraqi industry

 
 Baghdad: Muhammad Al-Ansari
 
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi said, during his opening, yesterday, Monday, the exhibition "Made in Iraq", which is being held by the Ministry of Industry at the Baghdad International Fair: "We face challenges, and we do not care about the attempts to question the government’s work and put the stick in the wheel. The most important thing is how to provide service to citizens. .
Al-Kazemi added that "the government is counting on the private sector to supplement the Iraqi industry and restore its identity."
He continued, "Iraq has tremendous minds and energies that can be a source of creativity and a tributary to the region and the world. Long decades of dictatorship, wars and crises have prevented investment opportunities and the prosperity of the distinguished Iraqi energies," pointing out that "supporting and protecting the local industry has occupied a large space in the government curriculum, and we are currently working." To create the necessary infrastructure to create an appropriate environment to revive the Iraqi industry again, and we rely on this path on the energies of the youth in our country ».
He stated, “We directed the Ministry of Industry and Minerals to launch the National Project for Youth Employment, to help young graduates establish small industrial projects that contribute to the development of local industry and reduce unemployment rates at the same time, and the government has embarked on a set of reforms to support the industry through the reform white paper and in the budget In 2021, we imposed taxes on the imported product to support and protect the national, local product.
Al-Kazemi declared that "the government is continuing to develop industrial zones in Nineveh, Basra, Dhi Qar and Anbar, and in all regions of Iraq."
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Iraqi Industry: A plan to create 925 projects to suppor t the private sector

Iraqi Industry: A plan to create 925 projects to support the private sector
Iraqi Ministry of Industry
 

Mubasher: The Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals announced a plan to establish 925 industrial projects for the private sector, stressing that it seeks to implement automation in procedures and transactions to reduce red tape.

The Director of Industrial Development, an agency in the ministry, Aziz Nazem Abd, told the Iraqi News Agency, "INA," today, Wednesday: "The directorate is tasked with receiving industrialists, establishing projects for the private sector and supervising their establishment."

He added, "The Directorate has a plan launched in June last year that includes establishing projects in the private sector estimated at 925 projects, of which 120 factories have been completed."

And that "the establishment of these factories came after the industrialists sensed the market’s need for national goods, and this also comes based on the vision of the Ministry of Industry and the government approach.

He pointed out that "there are facilities provided to industrialists to create an industrial investment climate, launch initiatives and reassurances to protect the capital of investors, bring in experts, and facilitate the entry of production lines and the necessary requirements for production into the country."

He continued, "The obstacles that were facing the work of the Directorate were routine procedures," noting that "the ministry and other ministries are continuing to apply electronic automation in order to facilitate transactions and procedures and reduce red tape."

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Sovereign investment
Saturday 27th March 2021

The Ministry of Industry informed us that it is about to restore 83 factories to service, and a few of them have begun to actually return to work and production.

This awakening sends a clear message that the privatization of the basic links of the industry is no longer from the agenda of the public sector, as its development was and is still a victim of corruption, and this is not a secret.

The process of separating the private and public sectors was first coercive and for political considerations, and now the market economy has been imposed on the state's capitalist economy, and therefore the 83 factories have been disrupted, as an industrial infrastructure, and in light of this productive vacuum, a service segment quickly crystallized in order to engage in import only, and to block production.

And the disruption of investment in the oil sector from petrochemicals to gas and refineries, to form an integrated program for an environment that repels real investment. The national economy has not and will not be led at this stage by a specific sector alone, as both of them failed to establish a complementary, alternative, or alternative to the rentier oil economy, which was completely unable to move out of its traditional framework to establish sustainable development that goes along with it.

The forced separation between the public and private sectors in the two experiments, state capitalism and the market economy, the most recent earthquake whose repercussions were still evident in the downturn of the economy, and the poverty schedules were evident, and the most prominent victims were the mixed sector, which succeeded par excellence in its time, as our economy is still within the framework of capitalism The state, testified to banking dominance, as state banks control 80 percent of the monetary mass, and here it becomes clear, how can the 20 percent lead and control? This question is answered only by the currency selling window and its customers.
 

Perhaps the most prominent obstacle to investment in practice is the existence of a gap between the public and private sectors, represented by the absence of what links them together, so it facilitates the isolation of the investor, when there is no link between tomato producers and government paste factories and others, for example under contracts between the producer and the factory, tomatoes become at the lowest prices, as they absorb and absorb Surplus production as paste and other by-products, as well as the case of the oil industry and government olive, sunflower and corn farms.
 

Therefore, we must protect agriculture and industry from the intrusion of the importer and the smuggler, in addition to enhancing the follow-up by the Investment Authority electronically, as there are projects that can only be completed with a sovereign intervention, as mentioned in the proposal of a project for industrial lakes in the FAO, as reported by the Businessmen Union, so the sovereign interference in this project and others It will be decisive, as the governmental funding capabilities break the circles of mediation and blackmail, especially when the success of its criterion is the complete achievement of evaluating the implementers, especially the director general and the competent minister.
 

We hope for this awakening to restore the 83 factories as a precursor to industrial, agricultural and tourism successes after the failure of policies that were for a recent era that threaten economic sovereignty by curbing sustainable development in its three sectors, agriculture, industry and tourism, through the fragmentation of their unified institutions, which as long as the private sector works as a complementary and alternative sector.

Real, under its hegemony alone, it turned the factories into warehouses for the importer.

 

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Iraq is heading to develop a comprehensive industrial map

Economie03:00 - 27/03/2021

 
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BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
The Ministry of Industry and Minerals announced, on Saturday, its intention to develop a comprehensive industrial map throughout the provinces.
The Director of the Industrial Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, Aziz Nazim, said, according to the official agency, that "the ministry is in the process of developing an industrial map for Iraq, after forming a committee and obtaining the minister's approval for this," pointing out that "the stages of preparing the development plan include studying the map of the provinces, the number of inhabitants and the level of demand." On the commodities and knowledge of the industrialists ’desire to establish their projects." 
He pointed out that "after the rise in the price of the dollar against the dinar, there has been a trend towards establishing food factories to limit the increase in their prices," stressing that "there is a growing demand for licenses and the implementation of industrial activities, despite the Corona pandemic."
He explained that "there is a tendency to establish factories for the production of detergents, sanitary materials and foodstuffs," noting that "his department granted 176 licenses under establishment during last February for various activities, most of which are food."
He emphasized that the main challenges facing industrialists are the land and the environment, noting that "the process of granting a license under establishment to industrialists takes one day from the Department of Industrial Development." Ended 29 / A43

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Good articles Yota.   Thank you.

 

Building industrial factories in Iraq is exactly what they need to diversify their economy.  This should also open the door for more International  Investment.   A good step in the right direction.  😝 

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   Here's a list of companies already in Iraq :  Samsung , BP , Exxon Mobil , Kellogg ,, General Electric,  Raytheon , Novartis , Haliburton , Microsoft, Asiacell  Itt Corporation , Seimons , Apple , Lockheed Martin , General Dynamics , Boeing .

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59 minutes ago, dinarham said:

   Here's a list of companies already in Iraq :  Samsung , BP , Exxon Mobil , Kellogg ,, General Electric,  Raytheon , Novartis , Haliburton , Microsoft, Asiacell  Itt Corporation , Seimons , Apple , Lockheed Martin , General Dynamics , Boeing .

 

Don't forget the Multi Billion Dollar Contract give to The N Korean Company Deawoo.

 

they need to get the RV done and Go international very Soon I would think.

 

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   A sovereign country must also have complete control of their currency .  It's confusing to figure out who pushes the rv button ,but this stipulation suggests that the government of Iraq is the one , with approval from the IMF and a few others that I'm not sure about . 

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An invitation to the private sector to enter the oil field

 
 Baghdad: Morning
 

The interest in developing the oil sector represents an important step to reduce the import of oil derivatives, and to provide additional resources, as it will be possible to rely on local working refineries, and to create an opportunity for the private sector to enter the oil field by withdrawing the experiences of the retired staff working in this field, and to provide job opportunities for graduates of studies. Oil, instead of wasting their energies and expertise and employing them in developing the private oil sector.
In this regard, the Secretary-General of the Federation of Businessmen, Abdul-Hassan Al-Ziyadi, called on the Iraqi private sector to participate in the oil field, adding to “Al-Sabah” that “the participation of the private oil sector in Iraq is almost non-existent and is limited to providing transport services, in addition to its participation in distribution only through "National filling stations."

He believed that "the current stage requires the entry of the private sector in the oil field and expanding its activity through building and operating small refineries, to achieve the maximum benefit from crude oil residues and treat them to extract oils of different density, which Iraq imports millions of dollars annually."
In the same context, Al-Zawraa State Company, a company of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, continues to work on the completion of self-generation stations for external refineries in accordance with the contract concluded with the North Refineries Company.
The company’s general manager, Eng. Hadi Ali Taha, stated that “the work team that includes the company's cadres from the technical affairs department and the supervision engineers at the sites and the German company Koons, the secondary partner, continues to implement self-generation stations for external refineries with (7) stations of different capacities in several governorates.” .
He pointed out, “The completion of the initial delivery of (3) stations, including Kirkuk 1 station with a capacity (3 MVA), Qayyarah 1 with a capacity of (6 MVA) and the Kasak station with a capacity of (4 MVA), as well as the successful implementation of the trial operation of the Chinese station with capacity (4 MVA) to move to The stage of initial receipt and guarantee ”.
Taha emphasized that “work continues to complete the remaining three stations (Haditha, Qayyarah 2, and Kirkuk 2), represented by mechanical works for fuel tanks, heavy and light fuel tubes, lubrication and compressed air pipelines, etc., in order to reach advanced stages of completion and operate the stations on time. 
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Procedures for establishing five new industrial cities

 
 Baghdad: Haider al-Rubaie 
The Ministry of Industry and Minerals revealed the continuation of measures to establish five new industrial cities in each of Najaf, Holy Karbala, Salah al-Din, Maysan, and Diwaniyah, while it confirmed that the completion rates in the city of Dhi Qar Industry reached 98 percent. According to a statement recently issued by the Government Information Cell, the Ministry of Industry and Minerals prepared a targeted plan within the national project to rehabilitate and operate the stalled factories and factories across the country.
 
During the last six months of last year, it achieved tangible progress in implementing its government approach and a number of achievements to promote and revitalize the Iraqi industry again, through the implementation of the rehabilitation plan for 83 stalled laboratories.
The plan included, according to the statement, three phases: short-term and included (17) factories, medium-term, which included (24) factories, and long-term, including (42) factories, in addition to establishing production lines and new projects and supporting entrepreneurs and unemployed graduates. Granting establishment licenses and allocating plots of land for industrial projects.
 
Advanced completion rates
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Industry, Mortada Al-Safi, said in a statement to Al-Sabah that “the completion rates of the industrial city in Dhi Qar governorate reached 98 percent,” indicating that “this advanced percentage was accompanied by similar progress in the industrial cities of the governorates of Basra, Anbar and Nineveh.”
Al-Safi explained, the completion of all the provisions of the contracts (the first and second phase) for the industrial city in Dhi Qar, which consists of four industrial zones, two for light industries and the same for medium industries, indicating that the city is equipped with all the necessary services and infrastructure, to make it a model industrial city, and to be attractive to local investment. And foreign.
The spokesman explained that the completion rates of the first phase of the industrial city in Anbar, which will be built on an area of (3000) dunums, amounted to 65 percent, and the project will be fully completed if the financial allocations are available, indicating that Anbar Governorate enjoys many investment advantages and privileges provided. 
For investors.
 
New industrial cities
Al-Safi revealed the continuation of measures to establish other industrial cities in the governorates of Najaf, Karbala, Salah al-Din, Maysan and Diwaniyah, explaining that the Industrial Cities Authority is looking forward to establishing new industrial cities in all governorates of Iraq and establishing new promising industrial projects that contribute to the development and revitalization of Iraqi industry. It also contributes to creating job opportunities for the unemployed and strengthening the national economy.
 
Addressing economic problems
The government’s approach aimed at reviving the industrial reality was welcomed by specialists in economic affairs, stressing the importance of the step in providing many locally manufactured products and employing thousands of unemployed. As indicated by the economic expert, Muqdam al-Shaibani, who stated in a statement to “Al-Sabah” that “cities Industrialization is one of the successful formulas in managing the economic process and one of the most important projects and ideas implemented by the state, with the aim of developing the industrial sector in these cities in particular, because of its effective role in addressing economic and social problems, through the intensification of the capital employed in these cities, describing it as It is one of the most diverse economic sectors that accommodate the workforce in various specialties and technical skills, and the most diversified in the specializations 
Productivity".
Al-Shaibani pointed out that “and in view of the great advantages that characterize the industrial cities, many countries, especially the economically developed ones, resort to them with the aim of encouraging investments in the industrial sector, as well as other sectors related to and complementary to it.
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Iraqi Industry: The merger of companies led to losses .. We will inaugurate 42 factories and plants within 5 years

Iraqi Industry: The merger of companies led to losses .. We will inaugurate 42 factories and plants within 5 years
 
 

Mubasher: Mortada Al-Safi, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals, said that merging companies caused them to become losers.

Mortada Al-Safi explained, in statements to the Iraqi News Agency, according to the Iraqi News Agency, "INA", today, Wednesday, that the number of the ministry's companies was 76 in the past, but now only 33 companies, indicating that "the merger between companies led to the loss."

He pointed out that the short-term plan to rehabilitate the stalled factories is nearing completion, with the intention to open new factories as part of the national industry promotion plan.

Al-Safi indicated that the ministry has developed a plan to promote the stalled factories and factories through 3 phases, short-term, medium-term and long-term, confirming the completion of 14 to 15 laboratories out of 17 within the short-term plan. 

He added that the medium plan stipulates the implementation of 24 factories and factories for a period of 3 years, while the long plan consists of 42 factories and factories, and its completion will be completed within 5 years.

Al-Safi stated that the ministry intends to add and update production lines, as well as open new factories as part of the plan, to promote national industry, which provides job opportunities, in addition to appointing diploma holders, transferring technology to the country, and providing hard currency to the country.
 
He alluded to controlling borders, activating customs tariffs and quality control, and starting the ministry in the public sector by returning these factories, which was reflected in the presence of many national products locally.

Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the Iraqi Prime Minister, today, directed to cancel all licenses for investment projects whose completion rate ranged between (0-35 percent) and the time period available for the implementation of the project has expired, as the number of projects to which this applies is 1,128 projects.

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Industry and National Security are discussing operating the stalled factories

 
 Baghdad: Morning
 
The Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz Al-Khabaz, discussed with the head of the National Security Apparatus, Lieutenant General Abdul-Ghani Al-Asadi, the reality of local industry and the ministry's plans drawn up to rehabilitate and operate the destroyed factories and factories 
And discontinued.
The minister reviewed the ministry's efforts and efforts to enhance national production and increase its competitiveness with the importer, and the ministry's directions towards encouraging the private sector to establish industrial projects that serve the country, stressing the need for the ministry and its public companies to support all institutions 
The state.
Al-Baker showed the capabilities and capabilities of the Ministry's companies to implement various works and projects and provide products that meet the requirements of state agencies and the local market, thus contributing to the revitalization and sustainability of the industrial process in Iraq. 
For his part, the head of the National Security Agency expressed his readiness to cooperate and provide appropriate support to the Ministry’s cadres in implementing industrial projects, and to benefit from the capabilities of industrial companies and their products. Patriotism.
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A parliamentary proposal in Iraq to merge 3 ministries to suppor t the economy

A parliamentary proposal in Iraq to merge 3 ministries to support the economy
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Mubasher: The Parliamentary Economic and Investment Committee in Iraq proposed today, Tuesday, to merge 3 ministries and pay attention to the industrial and agricultural sectors, stressing that operating the factories does not require a political decision.

Nada Shaker Jawdat, a member of the committee, told the Iraqi News Agency, "INA," that the closure of the important factories is the worst event in Iraq, which resulted in the outbreak of demonstrations and protests.

And Jawdat added, "If the factories and factories were operating, even with little production, it would have been possible to employ the labor force and achieve some financial support for the general budget."

She added that operating the factories and factories leads to the provision of important materials, reduces the rate of import and waste of hard currency, and provides part of economic security.

She indicated that the import rate in Iraq currently stands at 95 percent, despite the fact that all the components of the industry, including paper, textiles, foodstuffs, iron and steel, petrochemicals, electric power, cement and bricks, are available in terms of land, raw materials, energy sources and human resources.

Jawdat stressed the importance of paying attention to the industrial and agricultural sectors, stressing that "it is shameful for Iraq to import gasoline, electricity and agricultural products," calling for the merging of the ministries of industry, agriculture and trade under the Ministry of Economy.

She stressed the need for the government to adopt the operation of factories and factories that would provide job opportunities, reduce the import rate, and provide basic resources.

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 Baghdad: Hussein Thahab 
The voices of industrialists who demanded seriousness in supporting measures to develop the industrial sector, which is the cornerstone of economic development, as specialists described the complexity of the procedures for granting licenses to establish industrial factories and the multiplicity and complexity of the approval bodies, and obtaining the license requires several years at times, which is what It creates confusion for the reality of the national industry due to the lack of an ideal environment. Member of the Businessmen Union, Manar Al-Obaidi, said: {The complication lies in the lack of planning to define private industrial lands, and upon embarking on the establishment of an industrial project, there are no industrial lands designated for this purpose, so the project owner tracks the approvals from various government agencies that may contradict the location of the proposed project. With the instructions and laws of those bodies, such as the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, the municipalities, and every authority has complications and mechanisms that hinder work.
 
He called on industrial development to facilitate obtaining the trademark, trade name, product, market studies and other matters that should contribute to increasing the growth of the industrial sector, but it weakens and hinders the work of this Sector}. 
 
Industrial license
Economic specialist Maytham Al-Bolani said: {We can measure the level of complexity from the periods required by the process of obtaining an industrial license, as you find investors or businessmen whose suffering continues for years to obtain the license, or does not obtain it after great suffering among the various relevant departments. }. 
He pointed out that one of the detergents projects in the province of Diwaniyah required four years in order to obtain a construction license, and this reality does not represent an attractive environment for international investments wishing to work inside Iraq, noting that half of this period of time witnessed the establishment of a major industrial city in one of the neighboring countries. 
The former head of the Iraqi Industrial Assembly, Abdul-Hasan Al-Shammari, confirmed that {Iraq is capable of reviving industry and being a global industrial center, where seriousness is available for this important matter}, pointing out that {"the current mechanism must be supportive of the manufacturing environment in Iraq and contribute to the return of life to life." Factories that exist now, and make the national product strongly present in the market}.
 
Strategic areas
He pointed out that {the next stage requires that we move towards organizing industrial performance, and establishing integrated industrial cities in strategic areas, where highways and manpower are available, and contain all the services that the factory needs}.
Al-Shammari warned that "the elements for the success of the national industry are available and enter the market. The demand is increasing for all goods, and this stems from the large population increase."
To that, Ahmed Abbas Al-Hashem, a citizen (35) years old, said {the national product is absent from the local market, with the exception of mineral and gas water, which is available in different types and specifications, and we prefer to have a national product that reaches the market directly without transporting and storing and the negative effects of that. The local ones, which we often find in some stores, including the dairy products in Abu Ghraib 
A good echo in the Iraqi family.
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 Baghdad: Farah Al-Khafaf 
At a time when the Ministry of Industry and Minerals is working to operate the petrochemical plant in Basra, two industrial experts emphasized the importance of reviving the stalled factories and factories and establishing industrial cities, while criticizing the establishment of some industrial cities in remote areas.
The specialist in industrial affairs, Aqeel Al-Saadi, said: {The establishment of industrial cities is an important step, which will serve many parties, including those with investments, industrialists and craftsmen. 
Al-Saadi criticized the quest to establish industrial cities near the borders of some neighboring countries, indicating that this would not serve the Iraqi industrial, indicating that this requires the provision of integrated services of electricity, water and infrastructure, while there are integrated industrial cities in Baghdad and other suspended governorates.
He stressed {the importance of reviving the stalled factories and factories, and heading to establish integrated cities or complexes in all governorates, according to the nature of the raw materials in each governorate}.
 
Iraqi product
Al-Saadi warned against {the presence of dumping the Iraqi markets with imported goods and products that come from all countries of the world and competing with the national product, especially since the Iraqi product has exorbitant costs, such as municipality tax and fees, and the cost of fuel and raw materials}, usually this is a {unfair} competition, demanding at the time. The same {by providing fuel at the official price and providing electricity continuously in industrial areas to support the industrial and industrial sector to increase the national product, improve its quality and compete with the imported product.
 
New technology
In turn, the economist Saif Saad stressed that {the Iraqi industrial environment needs to introduce modern technology}.
As: {The national product cannot compete with the imported counterpart without support, either directly by pumping money, or indirectly through restricting the entry of the importer available locally}, stressing {the need to revive the stalled factories and factories, and to establish integrated industrial cities, with the benefit of The experiences of neighboring countries and the region}.
 
Qualification of laboratories
The Government Media Cell had announced that the Ministry of Industry had been able to implement a plan to rehabilitate the stalled laboratories, amounting to (83) factories, and in three phases, short-term and include (17) laboratories and medium-term, and included (24) laboratories and long-term, which included (42) laboratories, in addition to To establishing production lines and new projects, supporting entrepreneurs and unemployed graduates, granting foundation licenses, allocating plots of land for industrial projects, diversifying and increasing the products of the Ministry of Industry, as well as supporting projects and medium and small industries and striving to activate laws for the protection of local products and customs tariffs and the establishment of an exhibition {Made in 
Iraq}.
 
Petrochemical plant
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry and Minerals discussed final preparations and procedures for operating the petrochemical plant in Basra, which has been suspended since 2011. 
This came during the visit of the Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz Al-Khabaz, to Basra Governorate. According to the statement issued by the ministry, of which (Al-Sabah) received a copy, the baker held a meeting after his field tour in the General Company for Petrochemical Industries with the general managers of the ministry's companies in the governorate and directors of factories and laboratories in those companies. He indicated that his ministry is facing "great challenges" to operate and open the petrochemical plant after its suspension since 2011. It is hoped that the petrochemical plant will have significant positive impacts on the company and Basra Governorate. Al-Khabaz stressed {the importance of continuing cooperation between the Ministry's companies in Basra to overcome problems and obstacles and intensify and continue efforts to complete the operation and production of the petrochemical plant in light of the ministry's great and complete support.
Pointing out {the need for the ministry's companies to work in Basra as one team to improve the reality of their companies, their industry and production National}.
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 Baghdad: Haider Al-Rubaie 
The economic expert, Dr. Hussein Al-Khaqani, stressed the importance of restructuring the state-owned factories, and transforming them into joint stock companies in which the state’s share does not exceed 25%, stipulating that 25% of the other shares be offered to workers in the same factory, stressing at the same time, that the private sector has become It suffers from structural problems due to the state’s abandonment of its role in directing industry and agriculture and planning for sustainable development. Al-Khaqani’s call coincided with the government directions announced earlier by the Ministry of Finance, when it confirmed that the reform and activation of the private sector is done by creating a stable investment environment and reconsidering Some self-financed public companies, as well as activating collection from the electricity sector.
While she stressed that restructuring the banking sector is an urgent necessity, as it is the backbone of any economic expansion.
 
Factory restructuring
Al-Khaqani stipulated during his speech 
For {Al-Sabah} implementing a package of measures that will advance the private sector, pointing out that among those measures are facilitating the process of registering companies, lifting red tape and administrative bureaucracy, which has become a productive environment for cases of corruption, and protecting the product and local production from commodity dumping, and competing goods, by using Financial instruments {customs and tax}. 
The economic expert also called for “the need to own the lands on which the projects are built, provided that those lands are used for the purposes of the exclusively licensed project, as well as to provide security and protection for the facilities and their workers from the pressures that may face them, stressing at the same time the importance of restructuring the state-owned factories and transforming them into Joint stock companies in which the state's share does not exceed 25%, and the remaining shares are offered for sale, provided that they are sold first at a percentage
25 percent for workers in the same factory, and the rest is sold in the financial market.
 
Producer support Fund 
Al-Khaqani believes, {the importance of establishing a fund to support producers and exporters of finished goods, whose financing will be from customs duties that are taken from goods similar to local goods, and provided in the form of soft loans for productive projects, especially those whose products are exported abroad, stressing the need for the project permit to include a condition for the employment of the unemployed. from graduates of institutes and colleges, as well as unskilled labour.
 
Product Protection Supplies
The industrial development and investment expert, Amer Issa Al-Jawahiri, did not stray much from the previous opinion, when he stressed, during his speech to Al-Sabah, the importance of the trend towards converting a number of companies and factories from fully public ownership to mixed joint stock companies, provided that the proportion of the government sector in it ranges between
25% and 30% are included in the Iraq Stock Exchange so that there is a percentage of participation by sectors {public / employees / strategic partner / citizens shareholder}.
Al-Jawahiri explained that the process of transforming public sector companies can be regulated within the framework of the available laws, pointing out at the same time that what is important in this transformation is the implementation team and the boldness of the decision while following up on the results.   
Al-Jawahiri warned against the continuation of "uncontrolled imports", pointing out that this matter is an obstacle not only to the existing industries, whether operating or suspended, but also constitutes an obstacle to any thinking of new industrial investments, calling for "a careful consideration of the requirements for protecting the national product, not only From strict control of the requirements for increasing fees related to imports, but with all kinds of empowerment, support, facilities, exemptions, encouragement and attraction of new domestic and foreign industrial investments.
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The economic expert, Dr. Hussein Al-Khaqani, stressed the importance of restructuring the state-owned factories, and transforming them into joint stock companies in which the state’s share does not exceed 25%, stipulating that 25% of the other shares be offered to workers in the same factory, stressing at the same time, that the private sector has become It suffers from structural problems due to the state’s abandonment of its role in directing industry and agriculture and planning for sustainable development. Al-Khaqani’s call coincided with the government directions announced earlier by the Ministry of Finance, when it confirmed that the reform and activation of the private sector is done by creating a stable investment environment and reconsidering Some self-financed public companies, as well as activating collection from the electricity sector.
While she stressed that restructuring the banking sector is an urgent necessity, as it is the backbone of any economic expansion.
 
Factory restructuring
Al-Khaqani stipulated during his speech 
For {Al-Sabah} implementing a package of measures that will advance the private sector, pointing out that among those measures are facilitating the process of registering companies, lifting red tape and administrative bureaucracy, which has become a productive environment for cases of corruption, and protecting the product and local production from commodity dumping, and competing goods, by using Financial instruments {customs and tax}. 
The economic expert also called for “the need to own the lands on which the projects are built, provided that those lands are used for the purposes of the exclusively licensed project, as well as to provide security and protection for the facilities and their workers from the pressures that may face them, stressing at the same time the importance of restructuring the state-owned factories and transforming them into Joint stock companies in which the state's share does not exceed 25% and the rest of the shares are offered for sale, provided that they are sold first at a percentage
25 percent for workers in the same factory, and the rest is sold in the financial market.
 
Producer support Fund 
Al-Khaqani believes, {the importance of establishing a fund to support producers and exporters of finished goods, whose financing will be from customs duties that are taken from goods similar to local goods, and provided in the form of soft loans for productive projects, especially those whose products are exported abroad, stressing the need for the project permit to include a condition for the employment of the unemployed. from graduates of institutes and colleges, as well as unskilled labour.
 
Product Protection Supplies
The industrial development and investment expert, Amer Issa Al-Jawahiri, did not stray much from the previous opinion, when he stressed, during his speech to Al-Sabah, the importance of the trend towards converting a number of companies and factories from fully public ownership to mixed joint stock companies, provided that the proportion of the government sector in it ranges between
25% and 30% are included in the Iraq Stock Exchange so that there is a participation rate by the sectors {public / employees / strategic partner / citizens shareholder}.
Al-Jawahiri explained that the process of transforming public sector companies can be regulated within the framework of the available laws, pointing out at the same time that what is important in this transformation is the implementation team and the boldness of the decision while following up on the results.   
Al-Jawahiri warned against the continuation of "uncontrolled imports", pointing out that this matter is an obstacle not only to the existing industries, whether operating or suspended, but also constitutes an obstacle to any thinking of new industrial investments, calling for "a careful consideration of the requirements for protecting the national product, not only From strict control of the requirements for increasing duties related to imports, but with all kinds of empowerment, support, facilities, exemptions, encouragement and attraction of new domestic and foreign industrial investments.
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The holy Husseinite shrine warned against the consequences of continuing to neglect the national industry and relying on the rentier economy, and the loss of 80% of the country's budget due to import, while stressing that this leads to an escalation of poverty and an increase in unemployment problems.
The Federation of Iraqi Industries had recently revealed that there are 54,000 projects registered in the union, as well as 21,000 projects with the Industrial Development Directorate, 90% of which are suspended due to the lack of competitiveness and the lack of a safe business environment.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the Holy Shrine, Dr. Afzal Al-Shami, told Al-Sabah: "The country is theoretically one of the richest countries in the world due to its possession of the fifth oil reserves in the world and the second among the Arab countries, but it suffers from unemployment problems at this stage and a dangerous rise in the poverty line."
He added that "Iraq wastes 80% of its budget on imports, whether agricultural or industrial, which shows the lack of planning in this aspect."
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 Baghdad: Muhannad Abd al-Wahhab
 
The Ministry of Industry and Minerals completed the short-term plan a year after its announcement, indicating that it included the complete rehabilitation of 16 laboratories and factories, and that it is currently working on rehabilitating the factories within the medium-term plan.
The official spokesman for the ministry, Mortada Al-Safi, told Al-Sabah: "Since the beginning of the formation of the government, the ministry has adopted a national project and an ambitious plan of three phases (short, medium and long-term), with the aim of rehabilitating and operating the suspended factories affiliated to the ministry in all governorates, which number 83. A laboratory was evaluated according to the extent of the damage it was subjected to and the percentage of rehabilitation it needs,” noting that “work was started to implement the first short-term plan more than a year ago to rehabilitate laboratories and lines through the capabilities available to the profitable companies and the self-possibilities of the Ministry.”
He added, "The ministry took it upon itself to rehabilitate these simple factories and was able to implement the short-term plan with its own capabilities, which consisted of 16 factories and factories, including (asphalt, bricks, oxygen and food industries) and there are lines under rehabilitation as well as factories announced for investment."
Al-Safi stressed that "the ministry is proceeding with the implementation of the second medium-term phase, and there is a succession of work between plans to rehabilitate all laboratories, in addition to the fact that the ministry is seeking to open new laboratories to be added to these laboratories and factories, which will enable the provision of hard currency and the employment of graduates and the unemployed." , indicating that "there are factories in the mechanical, food and engineering fields, and many of them will be opened for partnership with the private sector and twinning work between the two sectors," noting that "the ministry has started the medium plan."
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 Baghdad: Farah Al-Khafaf 
At a time when Minister of Industry Manhal al-Khabbaz revealed government directives to open up to countries around the world to develop the industrial sector, an economist saw that partnerships are important to revive factories and laboratories and develop production lines. The baker discussed with the French Chargé d'Affairs in Baghdad, Jean-Noel Boniot, the opportunities available to enhance cooperation and partnership between Iraq and France in various industrial fields. During the meeting, the Minister of Industry confirmed that there are directives from Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to open up to the countries of the world to develop the Iraqi industrial sector, including France, in light of the good and friendly relations that bind the two countries, pointing out that the ministry had previously cooperated with France through projects and production lines in most of the countries. The ministry's factories, especially the successful investment experience with the French company Lafarge in the Karbala cement plant
For his part, the French Chargé d'Affairs affirmed the desire and seriousness of his country's government to cooperate with Iraq in various industrial fields, and to contribute to the development of the Iraqi industrial reality and the implementation of joint projects.
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi had recently discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron by phone, strengthening joint cooperation between Baghdad and Paris, during which the importance of developing economic cooperation between the two countries, as well as providing the appropriate environment for French companies to work and invest in Iraq, while Macron renewed his support for the Iraqi government, and the willingness of France to provide various aspects of support needed by the Iraqi government.
In a related context, industrial expert Aqil Al-Saadi confirmed to Al-Sabah the importance of partnerships between Iraqi and French companies, whether governmental or private.
 
industrial development
Al-Saadi pointed to "the need to support the trends of government openness to countries of the world, to attract international investment companies, and to agree with them to establish industrial development projects that provide job opportunities for young people and advance the national industry."
He added that "the competent government agencies should work to revive the stalled factories and factories by supporting international partnerships and helping local businessmen and investors," pointing out "the importance of the state sponsoring meetings and meetings between Iraqi and foreign businessmen and industrialists, especially since the private sector is the supporter." President for the advancement of industrial reality.
 
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The specialist in industrial affairs, Abdul-Hassan Al-Shammari, stated that “Iraq suffers from the suspension of thousands of industrial projects in all the public and private productive sectors and the mixed sector, which makes us urgently need to cooperate with the international industrial effort developed, and France is one of the most important industrial countries in the world and we can extend bridges of cooperation.” We are building bilateral relations that contribute to reviving a large percentage of our industry.” 
He cautioned that «the Iraqi economy is in dire need to rotate the wheel of industrial production, which is the focus of development in the country». 
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