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| INTRODUCTIONS TO COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS |
The administration provides charts of the goods in the Directory of Exports and
Industrial Firms in Lebanon including commercial agreements concluded between
Lebanon and some of the Arab countries under the control of Lebanese, Arabs and
foreign businessmen in order to facilitate the acquisition of appropriate
information for the exchange of goods in Lebanon. These contracts are with:
Syria, Egypt, Saudi, Jordan and Kuwait. However, the agreement with Iraq is not
operative anymore for two reasons since its validity ended and it has not been
renewed since 1990; the second because of the Iraqi's customs decisions to
increase tremendously customs tariffs on the imported goods to Iraq. As a
result, the need to establish a new agreement between both countries arises
while taking into consideration different aspects of the latest developments
such as the introduction of new products or the consequences of the changes on
the customs tariffs. The available information demonstrates that quick attempts
and executive steps has started by official ministries in each of the countries
as well as from private sectors in Lebanon and Iraq aiming to renovate the
developments of relations between both countries including the composition of a
new commercial agreement.
It is good to mention that there are commercial agreements other than the
previously mentioned ones; Lebanon has contracted with a number of countries
but these agreements as a whole remain in the scope of expansiveness and do not
include customs reductions as well as specified charts of goods excepting the
agreement of European Common Market signed between Lebanon and the European
Common Market which had a great impact on the development of Lebanese exports
to countries of the market since the eighties and up to the present day.
Consequently, the administration of the Directory decided to publish agreements
with the above stated countries which specified a direct relation with the
inter exchange of goods; with the indication that these agreements notified the
exchange of goods on the basis of a unified coordinated custom H.S. whereas the
classification itself depends on the classification of Lebanese industrial
establishments. That's what is not included in any other industrial directory
in the Arab countries and even in many developed countries.
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