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Syrian Trade: Welcomes the initiative of Litna Ezzana, and demands all activities to reduce prices

Shuaib hoped to expand the event to reach the chambers of commerce and industry and service activities to alleviate the troubles of living life

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One thousand dollars ... Faris al-Shihabi: And the economic capital that can download and tame it is still surrounded

Al-Shihabi believes that there is no salvation for the country except in industry and attention to every detail in order to encourage people to open, repair and rehabilitate their factories, and most importantly persuade the industrialists who have displaced other countries to return again to their cities and factories.

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The revenue of the Nassib border crossing during the year 2019 is about 9 billion liras

An official source at the Customs Secretariat revealed the share of the border with Jordan that preliminary indicators indicate that the volume of revenues in the Nassib port during the past year exceeded 9 billion pounds, as the last months of last year recorded a significant improvement in it, stressing that there is a clear improvement in the revenues of the port last year.

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Syrian olive oil to Iran soon

The President of the General Union of Peasants Ahmed Ibrahim revealed that there are currently negotiations with the Iranian side to export olive oil, and there is an intention to export 400 tons of it initially

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50 billion pounds in employee tax in 2020 and 5 billion in real estate dealers

People's Assembly member Mujib Al-Dandan stated that there is a real problem in government work today, noting that it is within the constitutional authority found in the constitution

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2252 smugglers in the hands of the customs officer

The number of smuggling cases achieved by the customs control exceeded 2252 over the past year (2019), with an average daily rate of more than 6 cases, and total fines of about 11 billion pounds.

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Reopening the commercial port of Latakia

SANA news agency quoted the Director General of Ports, Brigadier Ammar Makhlouf, that this morning the Directorate of Maritime Ports reopened the commercial port of Latakia to maritime navigation because of the improved weather.

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Map out of the crisis and facing the fluctuations in the Syrian pound

The Damascus Chamber of Industry and its countryside in Syria prepared a study of proposed solutions that include a set of items that it considered would reduce the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the industry, especially since controlling these fluctuations does not seem easy.

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Damascus Chamber of Agriculture exported about $ 200 million in 2019

The "Damascus Chamber of Agriculture" revealed that the value of its exports since the beginning of this year until December of it reached 198.5 million dollars, which included all agricultural products, and exports were made to several Arab and foreign countries.

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Commercial shops refrain from selling to citizens ... The fine reaches one million pounds and a year in prison

Many traders resorted to closing their stores in the face of citizens until prices stabilized on the pretext that they were losing their capital due to the raising of wholesalers, as well as factories and companies.

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The Syrian-Russian Joint Committee signs the final protocol and the customs facilitation agreement

The Syrian-Russian Joint Permanent Committee for Trade, Economic, Technical and Scientific Cooperation signed during its twelfth meeting in Moscow today the final protocol

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Shaaban: Syria has embarked with Russian companies on the geological exploration of oil

Buthaina Shaaban, political advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announced that her country has begun, in cooperation with Russian companies, geological exploration and the search for new oil reservoirs in Syria.

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A grain shipment from Russia to Syria

Russia intends before the end of this week to send a shipment of grain amounting to 25 thousand tons to Syria, as part of humanitarian aid for this war-torn country.

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The Ministry of Finance is preparing to be 2020 the year of the largest tax collection

The Ministry of Finance did not announce a figure for the amount of tax collections and revenues achieved during the year 2019, but rather said by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mamoun Hamdan

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A direct shipping line with Russia .. The Export Support Authority presents a new citrus marketing strategy

The Director of the Citrus Office at the Ministry of Agriculture, Eng. Suhail Hamdan, said that Syria’s citrus production this season reaches about one million tons, including about 230,000 tons in Tartous, and the rest in Lattakia constitutes a basic source of income for about 50 thousand families working in citrus cultivation.

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Commercial activities in Aleppo respond to the initiative of the Ministry of Awqaf and allocate materials for sale at cost price

The Ministry of Awqaf’s initiative, “Religion is morality ... Zakat, decreases your prices,” in the governorate of Aleppo, in response to the markets.

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The exchange rate pays investors to liquidate the shares on the Damascus Stock Exchange ... so their prices drop

The executive director of the Damascus Securities Exchange, Abdul Razzaq Qasim, stated that the reasons for the decrease in stock prices expressed by the decrease in the value of the index

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Syrian industrialists in the face of the siege .. And lift the siege

The Damascus industry provides solutions to reduce exchange rate fluctuations on the Syrian industry.

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Syria expects to start exporting locally collected cars at the end of the year 2020

Syria expects to start exporting locally assembled cars at the end of the year 2020, Director of Costs and Financial Analysis at the Ministry of Industry, Mohamed Khalifa, said that the Syrian-Iranian company for manufacturing and assembling tourist cars "Siamco" had negotiated with external markets such as Iraq and Jordan to know the cars required to manufacture and export them, while he expected companies to start Other cars assembled export at the end of 2020.

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Securing a steady maritime line between Syria and Russia to export citrus fruits

Ibrahim Maida, director of the "Support and Development of Local Production and Exports Authority" said that after discussions between the "Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade" and the authority with the Russian side,

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The imposition of provisions on importers .. a clear angle of high costs and slow work

Although more than one senior government official was keen to defend the supply decision, which obliges the importer to deposit 40% of the value of any import license and explained it carefully, the last of which was the Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade

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Al-Hallaq: The prices did not decrease despite the decline in the dollar ... the absence of competition

Member of the Board of Directors of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, Muhammad Al-Hallaq, stated that the role of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce is limited to educating the Chamber's affiliates, and developing their national spirit, to contribute to standing with the citizen in light of this crisis.

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Syrian information on the price of the dollar is obtained from external websites that appear and disappear as needed

We stand today at the crazy and sudden rise in Syria during the past days of the exchange rate of the dollar against the Syrian pound on the black market, where its price exceeded during the hours of a thousand pounds, and also fell within hours to less than 800 pounds, leaving a state of fear and panic among citizens

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"Supply" issues the price bulletin No. / 1 / for tons, sardines, coffee and matha

"Supply" issues the price bulletin No. / 1 / for tons, sardines, coffee and matha

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Damascus Countryside Supply Manager: Whoever does not have a bill can declare the source of the goods

Loay Al-Salem, Director of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection in the countryside of Damascus, said that all of the capabilities of his supervisory directorate are put in place to supervise the markets at the present time and confirm the use of

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Director of the Electricity Distribution Corporation: electricity theft cost the treasury 4.15 billion liras

Director General of the General Establishment for Electricity Distribution Abdel-Wahab Al-Khatib revealed that the number of seizures of illegal electricity in all Syrian regions has reached more than 27.9

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The People's Assembly approves the establishment of two oil refineries

The People's Assembly approved at its meeting yesterday, Sunday, the two draft laws that include the establishment of two oil refineries.

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Finance Minister: Preparing the executive and technical bases for issuing treasury bonds

Finance Minister Mamoun Hamdan revealed the preparation of the executive and technical grounds for issuing treasury bonds, and government agencies will be asked to submit their proposals on investment projects

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The project of rehabilitating the old Homs markets ends its third stage

The Directorate of Antiquities in Homs Governorate has completed the third stage of the project to rehabilitate and restore the old city’s markets, which have been sabotaged by terrorist attacks.

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Ministry of Commerce: Closing shops that exaggerate in raising prices

Assistant Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Jamal Shuaib stressed the importance of issuing the first price bulletin on basic commodities, food and consumer goods

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Industrial working map between Syria and Russia

The Director of Planning and International Cooperation in the Ministry of Industry, Iyad Maklad, revealed that the Ministry is working on the implementation of a map to develop trade and industrial cooperation between Syria and the Russian Federation, which includes a number of industrial projects in priority areas, and through which to identify agreed steps

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The lira consolidates gains against the dollar for a second day and improves by more than 20 percent

The Syrian pound strengthened its gains against the dollar yesterday, for the second day in a row, as it improved by more than 20 percent in the past two days, although it improved by about 15 percent yesterday

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Goldsmiths Association: Stop the pricing of gold on the central dollar .. But according to supply and demand

Ghassan Jazmati, president of the Association of Goldsmiths and Jewelers in Damascus, said that the rapid fluctuations in gold prices are the result of rapid changes in the dollar exchange rates in the Syrian markets.

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Mohamed Al-Hallaq: The instability of the legislation was the cause of exchange rate fluctuations

Commenting on exchange rate fluctuations, Damascus Chamber of Commerce member Mohammed al-Hallaq said that "the issue is thorny, although it has to do with what is happening in Lebanon."

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Paralysis in the movement of goods to Syria through Lebanon .. The measure will be a disaster on the money of the Syrians

The economist and the chairman of the Syrian-Armenian Business Council Leon Zaki stressed that the crisis in Lebanon is currently due to the popular protests movement, which caused direct and significant damage to the banking sector, crippling the movement of goods to Syria through Lebanon, the only outlet of Syrian imports due to sanctions.

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The Central Bank of Syria issues an important statement

The Central Bank of Syria has denied any relation to any documents circulated by the media and social networking sites in case they were not issued and published on its website and on its official page on Facebook

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The government approves a (price document) for materials financed by the Central Bank and imported materials from the Ministry of Commerce

The Council of Ministers adopted a series of decisions to ensure the flow of basic materials to citizens at reasonable prices and quantities that meet the needs of markets, after a series of successive meetings of the Economic Committee in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers during the past days.

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Closing 203 violating shops in Homs within 10 days

Patrols of the Directorate of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection in Homs during the past ten days organized 412 rations and closed 203 violating commercial activities.

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Expectations to increase the cost of living for a family of 5 people to 480 thousand pounds a month

A new economic study estimated that the cost of living for a family of five people during the next year will reach 480 thousand Syrian pounds, meaning that the average monthly wage of 60 thousand pounds per employee will cover only 12% of them.

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Catering is preparing to distribute food via smart card

Deputy Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, Refaat Suleiman, confirmed that the first phase of the implementation of the distribution of food commodities through the smart card has been initiated, explaining that the program interfaces have been installed in the central administration in the ministry and the Syrian Foundation

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Competition Authority: No monopoly in markets and high prices are caused only by the exchange rate

Director of the General Authority for Competition and Antimonopoly Majd Merzah denied the existence of any monopoly in the markets, pointing out that what is happening now from the rise in prices caused by fluctuation of the exchange rate only.

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Tourism raises the wages of workers in its hotels ten thousand lire cut per worker

Pursuant to the provisions of Decree No. 23 of 2019 issued by President Bashar al-Assad to increase salaries.

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Member of the People's Assembly: the reason rationing fertilizer plant in Homs .. The government Mo difference with it

MP of the People's Assembly for Hama and Waddah Murad revealed that "the Ministry of Electricity has withdrawn a quantity of the share of gas allocated for electricity generation and gave it to the fertilizer plant in Homs in order to continue production."

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Lattakia Customs: The arrival of three devices (Scanners) to scan the entire container

The Director of Lattakia Customs Adib Al-Ali that the value of materials exported through the port of Latakia since the beginning of this year until the end of September, nearly 21 billion pounds

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Customs: Control many cases of fraud and the introduction of smugglers with old customs data

Head of Customs Control Department Lieutenant Colonel Iyad Adra revealed the seizure of 4 warehouses in Lattakia, which include smugglers, mostly spare parts and maintenance of cars and various sanitary ware.

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The Ministry of Tourism revealed an increase in the number of Arab and foreign arrivals, by 46 percent as of October 2019 compared to the same period of 2018, where the number of arrivals «tourist, visitor one day, resident» 2.1 million arrivals, including 1.9 million Arab arrivals increased by 50 percent compared to the same period of 2018, most of them are citizens of (Lebanese, Jordanian, Iraqi and Bahraini), while the number of foreign arrivals reached 178 thousand, an increase of 15 percent compared to the same period of 2018, most of them are citizenship (Russian, American, Iranian, Pakistani and Indian) ). Indicators provided by the Ministry of Tourism to the Prime Minister, there is an increase of arrivals for the purpose of religious tourism, an increase of 24 percent compared to the same period last year, where the number of 212 thousand visitors, during which they spent nearly 1.215 million tourist nights, an increase of 23 percent compared with the same period of In 2018, most of them were Iraqi, Pakistani, Indian, Bahraini and Kuwaiti citizenship. Indicators pointed out that the number of Arab and foreign hotel guests as of September 2019 amounted to about 294 thousand guests, including 220 thousand Arab hotel guests, and 74 thousand foreign hotel guests. Indicators pointed out that the ministry has established more than one site dedicated to popular tourism through the Syrian Company for Transport and Tourism, where an open beach site in Wadi Qandil area was equipped on the lands owned by the ministry, and the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment has been asked to confirm all city councils and administrative units, especially Touristy ones to allocate studied areas as popular parks and prepare them to be ready for the citizens in order to establish parks managed by the councils or an appropriate investment formula. In cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Governorate of Quneitra, the Ministry has been allocated a location near the Al-Mantara dam to be used as a summer park for low-income people.The Syrian Transport and Tourism Company is currently preparing the park site as a project for domestic and popular tourism.It is expected to be opened in mid-2020. Motherland Getting Zarqa has become difficult .. Gas Director: The reason is the spread of rumors about the signs of a gas crisis

Citizens living in most neighborhoods of Damascus find great suffering in obtaining a gas cylinder from authorized centers to sell the material, which forced some of the citizens to go to black market vendors to secure the gas cylinder, which exceeds the price of 7 thousand Syrian pounds

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To control prices ... 9 control teams from Damascus

A member of the executive office of the catering sector in the governorate of Mazen Dabbas announced the issuance of a decision by the governor of Damascus Adel Olabi to instruct the members of the executive office in the governorate of Damascus as of Sunday to head a field team consisting of nine members of the provincial council

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Oil expects gas crisis to end within a week

Signs of a breakthrough began on Thursday and Saturday after oil production rose to 36,000 cylinders in Damascus, its countryside and Quneitra

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The economy defends the import supply and responds to the objections of traders

Assistant Minister of Economy Bassam Haidar responded to the objections of traders on the decision to import supplies, stressing that the decision guarantees the solvency and seriousness of the merchant for import and reduces tax evasion

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Finance does not consider new taxes or raising tax rates

The Ministry of Finance confirmed in a post on its official page on Facebook, that there will be no new taxes, and does not consider the adoption of any increases in the rates of taxation, but will address tax evasion and the collection of "heavy" accumulations, especially the file of senior taxpayers.

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