The Center for Market Research and Consumer Protection has organized a scientific symposium on the role of the state and the consumer in the success of the national initiative called “Made in Iraq” via the FCC platform in cooperation with various state institutions. This event included the presentation of various research papers presented by specialists which dealt with consumer rights and ensuring fair trade, the role of the agricultural sector in the success of the national initiative “Made in Iraq”, and mechanisms for upgrading the national product, as well as the tasks and achievements of the Directorate General of Industrial Development in supporting the private industrial sector and the initiative to support and employ young graduates.
The participants recommended that the ministry of finance should be directed to provide loans, especially medium and long-term loans to the private sector, so as to serve the objectives of the production and marketing policy, which requires more allocations to support fixed capital in the agricultural sector and to follow the method of targeted credit, as well as to direct both the ministries of planning, finance and agriculture to protect local agricultural exporters, as happens for countries that have joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and are working to liberalize their economic sectors, without leaving the local resources without any support under the pretext of letting the private sector take its full role for the sake of achieving the privacy of agricultural goods and products and to activate tariff laws and protect the producers and consumers.
