By Rickie Cole of SGS, in response to our Iraq Business News article on importation inspection: On 1st May 2011, the Central Organisation of Standardisation and Quality Control (COSQC) in Iraq implemented the Pre-Importation Inspection, Testing & Certification of Goods to Iraq (ICIGI) programme. This programme is designed to monitor the quality of regulated goods […]
The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, has awarded the French-based Axens, a fully-owned subsidiary of IFP Energies nouvelles, the Basic Design and License contracts for the construction of the new refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq. Axens will supply the following process technologies for the refinery: H-Oil RC technology […]
Aswat al-Iraq reports that the Iraqi Ministry of Transport has decided to cancel land customs duties from sea ports of entry. The ports media director told the agency that Minister Hadi al-Ameri decided to cancel these customs in order to encourage merchants to transport their goods through Iraqi ports. Ports used to have land duty […]
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Swedish Minister of Trade, Dr. Eva Burling, and the accompanying delegation on Tuesday. The Minister welcomed the minister and explained the situation in the new democratic Iraq. The two sides exchange views on ways of developing the Swedish-Iraqi relations for the benefit of both countries, and to promote trade between […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
. تلقت العراق من المؤسسة الدولية للتنمية قرضا من البنك الدولي بمبلغ يعادل 100.0 مليون دولار وهو تكلفة مشروع التعليمي الطارئ الثالث .وزارة التربية والتعليم تنوي تطبيق جزء من عائدات هذا الإئتمان للمدفوعات المستحقة بموجب العقد الذي تم إصداره عن هذا الالطلب لإبداء الإهتمام
Governments have many responsibilities, but one of the main requirements of government is not to get in the way. If an economy is to grow, the administration must facilitate, or at the very least not hinder, people who are trying to create value, satisfy demand, and serve customers. But the new inspection regime at Iraqi […]
