Mounir fakhry Abdel Nour, , Minister of industry and foreign trade Met Cairo Chamber's Delegation
headed by Engineer Ibrahim AlAraby – the Chamber Chairman in the presence of
Ahmed Alwakeel-head of the General Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce-, and Alaa
Ezz - The secretary general of the Federation, to discuss common matters. The most important of them
is the need for completing procedures of building a club and a hospital for traders and redeveloping
the conference hall at the Chamber. the delegation included Mohammad Gharib, deputy chairman of
the Chamber, Pasha Idris, assistant Treasurer, and Atef Al-Ashmouny , secretary general.
Al Araby confirmed during the meeting that these projects will provide health and social services to
meet the needs of the business community and are considered an essential requirement for capital city
traders and the Chamber is seeking for implementing them during the coming period.
He added that implementing such projects is the development of work within the Chambers of
Commerce because they will provide important services for their members in addition to it will be
an important incentive to join a number of street vendors who are working illegally under umbrella of
the official trade and finally in favor of national economy.
He confirmed that the project of private hospital for traders is an extension of health-care project, which
has been enforced one year ago and Traders are currently successfully benefiting from it for the second
year in the beginning of the New Year. he as well as explained activity of the Chamber during the next
phase and the most important projects that currently the Chamber is seeking for implementing to
develop the provided services for their members to enable them to face their challenges .
Mohamed Gharib demanded the Minister of industry and foreign trade for intervening and reviewing
the inspection rules which are followed in the Egyptian ports Especially for Chinese imports
Gharib said that any product imported from China currently is subject to inspection in Egyptian ports,
despite having certificate of the quality CIQ with Chinese products, but not adopted by Export and Import
Control Authority, That cost the importers Excess amounts and consequently added to the final price of
products, which means additional burden to consumers and This is not required now in these hard
days.
Basha Idris said that the role of chambers of commerce is very important for the development of
the national economy because it is the main base for it, so the implementation of these projects must
be supported by the Ministry.
He added that the construction of a hospital and Club for traders is very important because they have
health and social roles of as well as their development will provide other roles later.
Atef Al Ashmouni Said that the projects presented by the Chamber to the ministry are
Traders' demands, which are very important for them accordingly The ministry should facilitate
the procedures of these projects.
AlAshmouny demanded that we should overcome the routine procedures to facilitate implementing
commercial projects so as to achieve the economic development process, especially some projects of
the chamber are still undecided with the ministry.
For his part, Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour, confirmed that the ministry is keen to develop Chambers of
Commerce to play a key role in the development of internal trade system, pointing to the need for
updating its regulations to suit up with rapid changes taking place in the Egyptian market during
the current stage.
Abdel Nour referred to importance of improving all services provided to traders through chambers of
commerce and the ministry is fully prepared to support the Chambers to help them develop the system
of internal trade, which consequently will contribute in facilitating Movement of goods and providing all
the needs of consumers at reasonable prices.
Concerning the complaint of a certificate of Chinese imports, the minister said that the ministry will
coordinate with Exports and Imports Control Authority to identify the currently used rules in examination
procedures for Chinese imports, pointing to the importance of having quality certificates for any
commodity imported to protect Egyptian consumers from entering bad goods, that may affect their health
and safety.
At the end of the meeting, the minister called on Chambers of Commerce and all traders to participate in
the constitutional referendum, in the next month as a national duty to achieve stability, contribute in
developing the economy and accelerating development, pointing out that all the productive sectors need
this stability, which will come through the Constitution,that regulates the political, social and economic
life.
