[size=30]Iraq's factories are inhabited by "ghosts" .. A report breaks into the atmosphere of the possibility of returning the Iraqi factories and factories, which amount to about 300
2021-05-21
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Yes Iraq: Follow up
A press report shed light on the seriousness of trying to restart the factory machinery in Iraq, while I described the talk about the return of the national industry in Iraq to its previous pre-2003 era, a talk that is met with skepticism and controversy despite government plans.
And throughout Iraq there are more than 288 factories and factories, suffering silence and the monopoly of production has stopped inhabited by ghosts, Iraq which started a wide industrial renaissance in the early seventies of the last century, and formed a presence in the sufficiency of local production and the ability to export, it has become one of the largest importers for most of its basic and even secondary needs. Due to the suspension of most of his factories after 2003.
Despite the plans and attempts made by successive governments in the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, to return the Iraqi industry to its previous state, they were unable to move the production machinery to work again, with the exception of exceptions that do not constitute more than 2% of the total.
Iraq has huge industrial buildings that it had inaugurated more than 4 decades ago, including phosphate, paper, sugar, petrochemical, iron, steel, glass and other large facilities.
An electrical engineer who spent 30 years working in the Sumer cigarette factory, east of the capital, Baghdad, says, “It is very sad that today, the largest factories known for their quality production and their ability to raise the country with huge sums are remnants and piles of iron.”
Adel, speaks with bitterness and sorrow over the disappearance of the machines that cost countries millions of dollars, and the loss of their operational capacity as a result of the "deliberate" negligence and disruption that befell them after what is known as the stage of change.
Adel explains that "Sumer cigarettes used to cover local production, so that some of them were exported to foreign countries."
The fall of Baghdad
After the fall of the Baghdad regime, in April, the Sumer cigarette factory ended up in a military barracks for a militia and occupied a part of it as an isolation center for Corona patients, while the workforce was absent and the production lines were empty, as Adel says.
What happened in the cigarette factory is a model for dozens of other factories that have been affected by the operations of devastation, looting and looting during the period associated with the entry of US forces into Iraq, which was known as the "Third Gulf War."
Plans to remake "made in Iraq"
About a month after Mustafa Al-Kazemi's arrival to the prime minister, in 2020, the Iraqi government announced its intention to rebuild and rehabilitate all factories and factories during the following months.
Today, after nearly a year of government efforts launched by it, a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry, Mortada Al-Safi, affirms that “17 plants have been rehabilitated, including asphalt plants, fuel and oxygen bricks.
Safi explains that "the ministry has prepared a plan of 3 phases, divided between short, medium and long ones, to restore most of the Iraqi factories that have been disrupted."
He added, "The Ministry of Industry and Minerals had, before the fall of the regime, 76 formation of hundreds of factories and factories, but after 2003, it was reduced to 29 formations and 4 bodies by 288 factories and factories."
He adds that "the ministry is proceeding with its plan to rehabilitate the rest of the other 288 laboratories, and in some of them it has sought to involve the private sector and invest some of it due to the lack of the necessary financial allocations."
He pointed to the imminent "opening of the iron and steel plant", in Basra Governorate, which is one of the largest factories in Iraq, stressing, "We have come a long way and are about to finish bringing it back to work."
And on the ability of domestic production to compete with foreign goods, Al-Safi explains, "The biggest problem that contributed to the country's factories being kept under suspension throughout this period is opening the door wide open to the foreign importer and not applying the customs tariff, which was a factor of frustration for the Iraqi industry, whether in the public sector or The private".
"We have the ability to compete with the import, but within the required specifications and acceptable standards according to accurate economic calculations that take into account the type of need and not contradict the local product," he said.
Regarding the reflection of the Iraqi Central Bank’s decision to raise the value of the dollar against the Iraqi dinar on the existence of a national industry, the ministry’s spokesman explains, “The new banking policy contributed to pushing the Iraqi citizen to search for a local product that parallels his purchasing power after the prices of imported goods rose as a result of the reduction The country's currency against the US dollar ”.
The Central Bank of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance took a decision last year, including in the provisions of the general budget for 2020, to raise the value of the Iraqi dollar against the Iraqi dinar to control the smuggling of foreign currency and revive the local industry.
Mafia and parties wax factories
Nada Shaker Jawdat, an MP in the Iraqi parliament and a member of the Parliamentary Economy Committee, doubts the ability to advance the national industry again in light of the current data.
Jawdat attributes the reasons for this to political aspects, represented by the wills of influential forces and entities to keep the doors of government factories closed and idle from production.
She continues to say, that the absence of national industry provides the ability to survive for those forces by making Iraq the largest arena for consumption of foreign goods in a way that benefits the countries with which these parties are linked.
"Iraq has the energies, competencies, money and wealth, but it imports everything ... Isn't that funny," Jawdat added.
Jawdat suggests, by merging the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Agriculture into a formation called the “Ministry of Economy,” because these institutions “do not add any revenues to the country's budget, but on the contrary, they consume huge sums of money without any return or return.”
A member of the Parliamentary Economic Committee warns of the repercussions of that matter and the serious threat to economic security in Iraq, which makes it vulnerable to collapse in the event of any emergency situation that cuts off import lines.
The "Nerej" Foundation, which is specialized in investigative research, revealed a report last November, that the value of imports in Iraq over the past two years amounted to about 55 billion dollars.
And it stated in its report that the customs revenues achieved as a result of that value did not exceed 3%, while it was supposed to reach about 20%.
In this regard, the economic expert, Abdul Rahman Al-Mashhadani, believes that "the non-application of customs tariffs and the absence of government support in providing raw materials are among the main reasons behind the Iraqi industry's exit from the scene of production and competition."
Political reasons
Al-Mashhadani links the slow recovery of government factories from extinction and disruption to "political aspects more than technical and financial reasons."
Al-Mashhadani confirmed to Al-Ain News that about 112 factories belonging to the Military Industrialization Organization out of a total of 188 were looted and looted, but most of the civilian factories belonging to the government sector were preserved and remained untouched by theft, so why was their return to work suspended all that time? “.
Al-Mashhadani monitors a group of events that indicate the interference of some mafias in disrupting the advancement of the national industry, as he says that there are factories that have achieved success in gaining consumer confidence, including the “Abu Ghraib” dairy plant in the capital Baghdad and another in Karbala, but it was affected by burning from “destinations Uncharted, which led to the closure.
Al-Mashhadani refers to another side that stands as a stumbling block in the way of the return of the Iraqi industry, which is the overcrowding of idle facilities, even those that operate with large numbers of employees, exceeding 4 times the actual need of workers in some places.
And he cites by saying: "The preparation of employees of the Ministry of Electricity in Iraq exceeds 2.60 thousand, and the production capacity achieved by its counterpart in Kuwait by 30 thousand employees."
Al-Mashhadani expects, if the pre-technical national will is available, it will take 10-15 years for the return of Iraqi industry.
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