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Syria Faces A New Economic Reality By Ehsani for Syria Comment Sept 26, 2011 The recently announced import suspension prohibits the import of all products that have a customs duty of over 5 percent. This notice also covers countries that Syria signed a free trade agreement with (Turkey, Ukraine and the Arab countries for example). [...]
This morning, the official journal of the EU announced the seventh set of sanctions imposed on Syria. Two individuals and six companies were added to a list of people and entities facing assets freeze and travel ban. In addition to the earlier sanctions on importing or exporting energy products, an important prohibition on investment in [...]
In a rather dramatic step towards preserving the country’s foreign exchange reserves, Syria’s finance minister announced that new car imports into the country are suspended till further notice. All products that are subject to customs duties of 5 percent and over will be included in the suspension notice. Such products include luxuries including passenger cars. [...]
Since the new Governor of Aleppo took his new post recently, he has been making unflattering remarks about the city’s cleanliness. Back in 2009, similar remarks were made here. The pictures taken of garbage cans make the situation clear. Aleppo was recently host to a conference entitled “creating 6,000 new jobs”. This was sponsored by [...]
This is the first News Round Up of the new regime. Dr. Landis is irreplaceable and we all owe him a debt of gratitude and appreciation for taking interest in Syrian politics, history and religion. Readers are encouraged to make recommendations. They are also encouraged to write opinion pieces that we will attempt to publish [...]
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