The head of the Federation of Iraqi Industries Ali al-Saadi said that the two countries set a road map for their economic relations, pointing out the efforts made to grant a list of goods exemptions from customs duties imposed by Iraq on imports

He stressed that Iraq wants a Jordanian product provided that it does not affect the Iraqi industry to reach the desired economic integration between the two countries, and called for monitoring the goods entering Iraq through Jordan in order to preserve the reputation of Jordanian industry.

In turn, the President of the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce Jafar al-Hamdani, Iraq is in dire need of a joint Arab economic project to return to the incubator Arab and international, indicating that the agreements signed with Jordan will be the real start to it.

Al-Hamdani said that Iraq wants to be present at the Arab and international economic events and to arrive at the earliest time to the WTO agreement and the integration of Iraq in the global economy. He pointed out that the agreements will be an opportunity to reach the Red Sea ports via Jordan.

He added that Iraq wants Jordan, which he described as the safe back of his country, access to international banks, and the establishment of economic partnerships with Jordanian employers and the supply of goods through Aqaba.

He pointed out that the agreements signed between the two countries are important and will give great results to the Iraqi and Jordanian economies. It is also important for the Iraqi industry and the Iraqi trader, stressing that Jordan is one of the most important commercial windows needed by Iraq in the next stage to enter goods and export goods to stimulate industrialists to invest in the industrial sector.

On the side lines of the forum, which was attended by a group of businessmen in the two countries, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Amman Chamber of Industry and the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, as well as several issues of interest to the private sector in the two countries, including the need to benefit from the agreements and the establishment of joint exhibitions and benefit from the experience of Jordan specifications and standards Customs interconnection and incentives in the industrial city and facilitating the granting of visas to drivers at the border.

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