Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Dr. Tarek Al-Hammouri met with the Chairman and members of the Board of Directors of the Jordan Chamber of Industry to discuss the most important problems and challenges facing the industrial sector in terms of production costs, trade agreements and others. 

For his part, Dr. Tarek Al-Hamouri, Minister of Industry congratulated the Chairman and members of the Board of Directors of the new Chamber and expressed confidence in the industrial sector. 

Al-Hammouri briefed the ministers on the strategy of the ministry during the next two years to support the local industry and enable it to reach the production country. The strategy is based on the axis of exports by focusing on the Iraqi and Syrian markets and implementing what was agreed upon during the last productive visit of the Iraqi side, To the European Union countries and to promote the use of the new facilities of the "European origin" rules, including the rehabilitation of local factories and the training of their labor to produce goods that meet market entry requirements As well as a networking between the Jordanian manufacturer and the European trader. 

Hamouri pointed out that the ministry will work through the export promotion company, which will be established soon, to support factories wishing to export, and help them to market Jordanian products in European markets and other non-traditional markets to open promising prospects for national exports. 

For his part, Eng. Fathi Al-Jaghbeer, Chairman of the Jordan Chamber of Industry, stressed that the Jordanian economy in general and the industrial sector in particular are currently in dire need to achieve effective partnership between the public and private sectors to meet the challenges faced by surrounding events in neighboring countries and the decline of traditional export markets to national exports. On the high costs of production, especially in the energy side in its forms. 

He pointed to the most important challenges facing the industrial sector, outlined in three main axes: the cost of production of raw materials, energy, transport, etc., and access to markets, both domestic and foreign, and the difficulties it faces in this aspect, in addition to the business environment and bureaucracy in various government procedures and transactions. The working mechanisms and future cooperation between the chamber and the ministry were also discussed. 

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