"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper learns from e-draft.am, the unified website for the publication of drafts of legal acts, that until January 3, the Ministry of Economy has submitted a project for public discussion: "On applying a temporary ban on the import of a number of goods from third countries to the Republic of Armenia".
The project proposes to temporarily (for a period of 6 months) ban the import of ferrous metal preparations from third countries, which will reduce the possible risks related to the cessation of activities of local castings and rebars producing enterprises, and at the same time will create favorable conditions for supplying local metallurgical enterprises with locally produced preparations, and for the latter to produce local rebars, without interrupting the established production chain (from scrap to the production of complex products).
According to the reasoning, the development of the draft of the Government's decision "On applying a temporary ban on the import of a number of products from third countries to the Republic of Armenia" (hereinafter referred to as the Draft) is conditioned by the need to promote heavy industry, which is considered the dominant branch of the manufacturing industry in the Republic of Armenia, as well as the need to regulate the production of strategically important products (ferrous metals) and domestic trade.
It is expected that the adoption of this project will make it possible to exclude the possible risks of the cessation of activity of the metallurgical and metalworking enterprises of Armenia, to develop the production of locally economically complex, high-added-value metal products (ensuring the complete chain of production of complex products locally) by implementing import substitution.
The goal is to stabilize the activity of locally produced metallurgical and metallurgical enterprises, import substitution.
In the past, Nikol Pashinyan considered such bills "a way of working to serve the interests of chamber businessmen with cash". in short, nothing has changed."
