Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Mazar-e-Sharif: Haji Momin Ziaei, the head of the Northern Afghanistan Oil Materials Union, said in an interview with AVA reporter: Customs, especially the customs of the port town of Hairatan, is under the Ministry of Finance, and the recent actions of this ministry in the area of exempting crimes and creating ease It is commendable for businessmen; With that, we request the customs officials to give more time to the traders to unload their imported goods; Because two days are not really enough and this should be scheduled.
He called the process of importing petroleum products from the port town of Hairatan as normal and added: There has been a short pause in the import of petroleum products, which will be resolved soon and there is nothing to worry about.
Mr. Ziaei stated: Petroleum materials are widely available in Central Asian countries and we can easily import them into the country. But the reason for the high price of gas and oil in the country is the reduction of the load of vehicles by the authorities and the blocking of the Salang highway.
He clarified that according to the proposal of the Islamic Emirate government officials, we contracted 180,000 tons of petroleum products with Central Asian countries so that the people would not have to face the problems of high prices of petroleum products, especially gas and oil.
In the second part of his speech, the head of the Union of Petroleum Materials of North Afghanistan said: In the circumstances that we are introduced as a consuming and importing country, the export of eighteen wagons of goods and domestic products to the countries of Central Asia is a great achievement and the government should do more than First, strengthen the process of supporting businessmen and factory owners.
He added that the government's strong mechanism for supporting businessmen and factory owners will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in our beloved country of Afghanistan. Although business and traders have always faced problems and obstacles all over the world, but the biggest problem of Afghan traders was not the lack of raw materials.
The head of the Petroleum Materials Union of Northern Afghanistan stated that the government should provide the conditions for the procurement and import of raw materials widely in the country and reduce the tax on raw materials at the customs. Because the support of the businessman is actually the support and strengthening of the government and the nation.
On the other hand, Malek Nazar Safi, the deputy of the Petroleum Materials Union of Northern Afghanistan, said: We are satisfied with the attitude and cooperation of the current government. Because we have easy access to high-ranking officials and they give us an immediate answer, and serious actions are taken in solving the problems of businessmen; but the only problem of petroleum traders in northern Afghanistan is that non-standard, low-quality and low-quality petroleum products are imported from the western and southern ports of the country. Therefore, it is requested to prevent the importation of low-quality petroleum products in the country.
At the same time, Jamshid Khorasanpour, the head of the office of the directorate of the Hairatan commercial port services department (STRAS), said: the import and export of goods through ships, railways and vehicles is going on in the normal process in the port town of Hairatan, and in the last ten months, the statistics of exports and Imports from the port town of Hairatan have doubled compared to the past, and we have the capacity to export and import any amount of goods through this port.