Union of Chambers of Commerce warns of repercussions of shortage of food, pharmaceutical commodities

SANAA, Aug. 19 (YPA) – The General Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Capital Sanaa warned of the repercussions of any shortage in food, pharmaceutical and consumer goods as a result of Aden Customs’ decision to raise customs tariffs.
A statement issued by the Union and the Chamber held Aden Customs fully responsible for the illegal measures it took to raise the price of the customs dollar from 250 to 500 riyals.

The statement pointed out that the absurd and ill-considered decision of Aden Customs caused direct damage to the import, unloading and supply operations in the port of Aden.

The statement said, “The private sector will not be able to implement the decision, as its implementation means raising prices by 100 percent, and this is what the Yemeni people cannot tolerate and the private sector will not be dragged into adding burdens on citizens.”
The statement added, “ In the current living conditions and the deterioration of the national currency and the fellowship of the national currency and the poverty income increases, the insistence on the implementation of the resolution, has been enhancing the volume of imbalances in food chains, the port has become rewarding and contained, and the dispatch of the decisions of the decisions and the views of the decline in the community’s decision and the promotion of poverty and the promotion of poverty and the hunger”.

The General Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Capital Sanaa rejected the decision to the United Nations and the United Nations, economic donors, donors, sister and friendly countries with urgent intervention and pressure to turn off the decision and cooperate with the private sector in this aspect.