Lebanon Announces Higher Tariffs On Specific Imports

The Ministry of industry recently announced plans to impose higher tariffs on specific imports to protect Lebanon's domestic industries.

According to the meeting held by the Minister of industry, Hussein Hajj Hasan at the China Lebanon chamber of Commerce, these imported products, which are subject to tariffs, are mainly those that have been acquired in the exporting countries.

A product of great competitive pressure on Lebanon's industry.

He expressed the hope to increase consumption of Lebanese domestic products by increasing import tariffs.

Leather, steel, plastic, paper and food are reported to be on the list of tariff increases.

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Under the auspices of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Ethiopia's sheep leather products will become famous brands and exported to other countries.

Sheep leather products will be advertised as the best leather products in Ethiopia.

Reporters from the African media "allafrica recently reported that" the Japanese International Cooperation Agency consultant NoriyukiNagai said in an interview, the "local top product promotion project" short-term goal is to make Ethiopia sheep leather to become the international high-end sheep leather products, and the product into the Japanese market.

The sheep leather products produced in Ethiopia are of the highest quality and are becoming more and more famous, and will be exported to the Japanese market and other countries in the world later.

In addition to sheep leather making, the project also looked at other candidate products, but finalized sheep leather for another major promotional product.

Nagai said: "the coffee beans produced in Ethiopia are popular in the Japanese market, so it is not necessary to promote them.

After studying the feasibility and supply capability of the product promotion, we decided to focus on the leather products made from sheep skin.

KimiakiJin, a representative of Japan's international cooperation agency in Ethiopia, has revealed that the reason why sheep leather is chosen as the representative of Ethiopia's new brand to enter the Japanese market is because Ethiopia sheep and other animal husbandry resources are abundant, and the market potential of sheep leather products is huge.

The government of Ethiopia has also made full preparations for developing the national image through the development of the brand of sheep leather products.

At present, there are three local enterprises in Ethiopia participating in the project, the three companies are LeatherExotica, Enzi and ELICOAwashTannery.

Because these three enterprises have unique characteristics in sheep leather design, and the quality of products is excellent, they are selected by this project.

Fistum, head of Ethiopia Investment Commission (EIC), said that after the successful entry of sheep leather products into the market and the establishment of a good brand image, it will further expand the scale of the brand and carry out mass production.

It is reported that the Japanese International Cooperation Agency has also promoted the project in Indonesia, which has been a successful product in Indonesia and has become a worldwide brand.

Today, the masterpiece of Japanese management, Kaizen (Chinese name "improvement: the secrets of Japanese enterprises' success") has become popular in Ethiopia and has become the philosophy of production management in Ethiopia's local manufacturing industry.