Aleppo-SANA

The interventions of the members of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry during the annual meeting held today at the Shahba Aleppo Hotel focused on demanding an increase in the hours of electricity supply to industrial areas, increasing the quantities of diesel for factories and reviewing fuel prices.

They also called for supportive and encouraging measures for exports, the establishment and support of export exhibitions, allowing the temporary admission of all industrial materials, and ending the state of double taxation on foodstuffs that include cocoa in its manufacture.

They pointed to the need to expedite the amendment of the income tax law, rely on modern systems in the tax assignment process, exempt local products from consumer spending fees, improve the service reality in industrial areas and put an octane gas station in the industrial city to serve industrialists.

The Minister of Industry, Dr. Abdul Qader Jokhadar, stressed in his speech that everyone is required to deal seriously with the challenges facing the industrial sector and dispel the rightful concerns of industrialists in accordance with the principle of partnership and integration of roles among all, while probing all promising industrial projects and activities to invest the available and available potential opportunities and those that will be available successively.

Jokhadar pointed out that the government and the economic team are continuing to work to secure the requirements of the industry and manage resources according to the available capabilities and move towards everything that enhances productive activities in all its sectors while developing the legislative environment governing its work in order to achieve optimal efficiency in the use of resources fairly and transparently in order to meet the needs of the local market and increase the contribution to the GDP.

Jokhadar pointed out that the ministry's doors are open to any initiative or proposal that would achieve economic growth and develop the industrial sector in all its components, thanking the Aleppo Chamber of Industry for its efforts made during the earthquake period to help those affected.

In turn, the President of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry, Eng. Fares Al-Shehabi, stressed that the Chamber is always in favor of establishing a competitive non-monopoly industry in open markets, provided that any commercial openness is gradual, thoughtful and programmed with a degree of readiness and growth of this industry and in accordance with the policy of rationalizing and rationalizing imports temporarily according to the growth of production capacity and rationalization and rationalization of production according to the priorities of the national economy and focusing on preparing our industry for the next competition by reducing its costs and removing obstacles in front of it.

Al-Shihabi reviewed the Chamber's vision to promote the national industry, solve the problems of financing imports, work to stabilize exchange rates, solve technical problems of electricity, speed up securing fairgrounds for Aleppo, reduce the cost of the production system to achieve the export competitive advantage of the Syrian product, put forward a package of laws encouraging the manufacture of machinery and production lines, solve the problem of oil supplies and activate air traffic at Aleppo International Airport, especially on the Aleppo-Cairo and Aleppo-Baghdad line.

Al-Shehabi reviewed the efforts of the Chamber during the earthquake in Aleppo and the relief campaign launched for three months, through which a housing grant was provided to 980 families and 49,<> milk cans were distributed, in addition to multiple relief aid, thanking all contributors, donors and the relief team of industrialists, volunteers and cadres of the Chamber for their efforts to help their affected families.

After that, 6 senior industrialists and craftsmen were honored in recognition of their work and industrial career, and a documentary film was screened about the most prominent work and activities of the Chamber in 2022, a film about the honored industrialists, in addition to a documentary film about the relief campaign of the Chamber to help those affected by the earthquake.

The meeting was attended by Aleppo Governor Hussein Diab and a crowd of industrialists.

Qusai Razzouk

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