Qatar participates in Arab meeting to draft legal annex for restrictions on trade in GAFTA

10/19/2021 4:08:09 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA Cairo: The State of Qatar participated in the ninth meeting of the Committee concerned with technical barriers to trade, which was held yesterday at the headquarters of the Arab League, with the presidency of the State of Kuwait.

The meeting addresses a key item on negotiating the annex on technical barriers to trade within the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA), which is the Annex on Technical Barriers and Specifications.

In a press statement on the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy Director-General of the Public Authority for industry in Kuwait Engineer Mohamed Al Adwani said that the Committee studied the observations of countries on this annex with the aim of developing a final review of the draft legal annex, in preparation for its submission to the Economic and Social Council at its 109th session scheduled for February 2022.

He pointed out that the objective of these meetings is to work on negotiating in order to remove obstacles related to trade exchange in terms of technical specifications and regulations for commodities between Arab countries, in light of the Arab specifications for commodities prepared by the Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization (AIDMO), to adopt and agree to international standards in this regard.

The meeting reviewed the observations received by the General Secretariat from the Republic of Iraq, the State of Kuwait and AIDMO on the draft legal text amending the annex on technical barriers to trade within the framework of the GAFTA.

Through this annex, the Arab League aims to work to promote trade in goods between Arab countries in a way that leads to the preservation of the interests of member states on the basis of mutual benefit, achieve balance between rights and duties, and work on finding an Arab framework to address issues related to technical barriers to trade to enhance trade exchange between Arab countries.

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