Customs: Here is the list of products concerned by the rise in rights at 40% - Medias24

The increase in ordinary law on the import of finished products from 30% to 40%, proposed in the amending finance bill, aims to "strengthen the protection of national production to support the efforts undertaken inMoroccan companies in difficulty.Likewise, the pressure exerted on national exchange reserves requires taking measures to encourage the substitution of imports by local production ”mentioned in the PLFR presentation note.

The taxable plate (price positions) concerned by the rate of 30% is 54.6 MMDH on the basis of 2019.This amount includes products that actually pay this rate (nearly 14 billion DH), as well as those who benefit from deductible or free trade agreements and whose customs duty rate can only be restored 30%'In the event of renegotiation of ALE or the application of protective measures.

No less than 125 products will be affected by this increase, except last minute amendment.Several sectors are concerned, including:

- Food products: coffee, cocoa, spices, fruit and vegetable juices, watermelons and melon, mineral waters and non -alcoholic drinks, raw or refined sunflower oil, other raw or refined vegetable oils, preserves of fruits and jams, preparationsSugar base, raw or refined sugar, pastries and preparations based on cereals, fresh or dry fruits, frozen or brine

- Textile and leather items: clothes made and hosiery items, shoes, blankets, linen and other made textile items, special fabrics, velvet, lace and embroidery, fabrics impregnated or coated with various materials (consumption), shoes, bags, bags, trunks and various leather works,

-Domestic articles: refrigerators, dishwashers and other domestic articles, dishes and various ceramic objects, household hardware and domestic economy articles, stoves and heating devices

- Materials: wires, cables and other isolated conductors for electricity, piping accessories and metal construction, paintings, varnishes and mastics, copper tubes and pipes, rubber and rubber works, marbles;granite;Gypsum and other stones, Lieges and various works in cork, wires, bars and copper profiles, stones, plaster, cement, or similar materials, ceramic products

- Industrial equipment: Piston engines;Other engines and their parts, brooms, brushes and other similar articles, devices for the production of cold industrial use, tap items and similar organs, various wooden works in sparry or basketry

- sanitary products: drugs and other pharmaceutical products, furniture;medico-surgical furniture;Bedding items and lighting devices, instruments and medico-surgical devices, etc.

- Other products: tobacco, seats, furniture, mattresses and lighting items, utility cars, bandages and tires, parts and parts for cars and passenger vehicles, various glass works, various iron or steel works, various items inrubber, writing and office items, papers and boxes;Various works in papers and boxes;Finished papers and paper works, carpets and floor coverings, various books and prints, hair comb, hair pins and other similar articles for hairstyle, printing or writing ink (half-products), toys, gamesand entertainment or sport articles, ...

The logic on which the State is based to increase the imposition of these products, is that part of these products are not essential and are still imported which strikes the trade and payment of the country.

However, in the lot there are also important products that the country needs.Should we pay more?This is not necessarily the case.Because the government works in parallel on a policy aimed at installing industries manufacturing these products from which the country cannot do without it.

This is the strategy led by the Minister of Industry and Trade Moulay Hafid Elalamy and whose contours he reveals by scraps during his passages in Parliament.Last June the minister said: "I have a problem with what we import.I discovered for example that we import hospitals, school tables ..., that's not normal.I have been calling on Moroccan entrepreneurs for a long time to invest in industry, that opportunities were not missing.But there was no respondent.There, I decided to change software.I gave instructions to my teams to list all the products we import, and see what we can limit, or even stop, substituting it with local production ".

Hospital beds or school tables that we do not manufacture, these are only examples among so many others.Brooms, school bags, orange concentrate (essential material in juice production) or cans for fish are all imported today.

To put an end to these aberrations, the recipe of MHE is to set up a project bank in the various niches that will be detected, with well -tied business plan and support for Moroccan entrepreneurs in the assembly of their projects and in the proceduresTo obtain the funding necessary for their projects.

"We import 43 mmdh of products that can be manufactured in Morocco for the coming years.For nearly 22 mmdh, we have ready plan and we know precisely what to do not to import them anymore.We will work on this in the coming weeks and we will launch the project and send it to young Moroccans and investors, "explained the minister during his visit to Parliament on Monday, July 6.

According to the Minister, the project bank is almost finalized.Regarding funding, the program has already been set up via Morocco PME, this is the Tatwir program.It is a tailor -made offer allowing end -to -end support to develop investments in priority industrial sectors, encourage investments in products not yet or weakly industrialized in Morocco, and promote the acceleration of the development of TPME to strongPotential (SCULE-UP) »."This offer integrates both investment and advice and technical assistance".

In terms of funding, the Tatwir program provides support for investment of 30% of the increased investment program for a repayable advance of 5% for the financing of operating expenses;An 80% coverage of the cost of technical expertise and advice;and a payment of 50% of expenses relating to creativity projects and co-development capped at 5MDH /Project.

Calls for projects in this sense will soon be launched.