The Minister of Industry issues two decisions to facilitate the work of industrialists to secure raw materials and maintain machines

Damascus (ST): Minister of Industry Ziyad Sobhi Sabbagh issued two decisions to facilitate the work of industrialists, secure their needs for raw materials, maintain their facilities’ machines, and put them back into the production process.

The first decision stipulates allowing industrial establishments that are similar in type of industry and product to dispose of the raw materials imported by them, by selling part of them among each other and within the identical industrial sector exclusively. The decision specified a percentage not exceeding 30 percent of the value of raw materials imports and within the provisions after the importing industrialist submits a written request to the concerned Chamber of Industry and obtains the approval of the Directorate of Industry.

As for the second decision, it stipulated that industrialists can transfer their machines in order to maintain  or repair them outside their facilities, according to a special permit issued by the concerned Directorate of Industry, provided that the industrialist submit a written request to the concerned Directorate of Industry through the concerned Chamber of Industry in the governorate.

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