20th meeting of Arab anti-dumping officials kicks off
A meeting of the Arab anti-dumping and precautionary
measures kicked off here on Tuesday at the Arab League premises on Tuesday to
discuss necessary trade adjustments for establishing an Arab customs union.
The three-day meeting, to be presided by Egypt,
comes in resumption of a series of previous meetings that aimed at working out
trade mechanisms to combat dumping and support precautionary measures against
customs evasion.
In a statement on Tuesday, Head of the Central
Administration for Trade Dealings at the Ministry of Trade and Industry Mohamed
Saleh, chairman of the meeting, said there is a need for preparing a mechanism
to deal with trading and establish an Arab free trade zone to enable the Arab region
to engage in trade agreements with foreign countries as one entity.
He pointed out to an Arab consensus as regards
details of such mechanism, noting that some remarks floated by some Arab
countries have been answered in this regard.
