"Functions of Private Sector Development Directorate"
Profile
We are "Iraqi Trade Information
Center" one of the Private Sector Development Directorate
departments related to Iraqi Ministry of Trade. "This directorate is
concerned with developing private sector to activate its role in
building Iraqi economy due to its influential and great role in
advancing development and progress forward, through available investment
opportunities, offering support and facilities in communication field,
providing trade-economic information & specialized professional training
as well as its participation in exhibitions, conferences, economic
forums, and international symposiums".
Our directorate is making best efforts
in activating the role of Export Promotion Fund to introduce its support
to (non- petroleum Iraqi products) to access external markets.
First:
Iraqi Trade Information Center Dep.
The center offers information support &
technical backup for businessmen & Investors, facilitates business by
using modern techniques, opens new markets for private sector and
activates connection between them and their partners all over the world
through
1.
Providing information in a sophisticated manner that convoy with the
information revolution in the world to be accessible to every one in
order to increase trade activity, educate beneficiaries with the
systems, laws, and trade regulations through our website:
And it includes the following :
- Investment opportunities announced by the
national investment commission.
- Tenders of our ministry's
companies and directorates.
- Laws & trade regulations (regulationsof
company's registration directorate,investment law,
export & import licenses, insurance
regulations).
- Allowed and non-allowed
exported & imported materials.
- Exhibitions held inside &
outsides Iraq.
- Domestic prices of
rations card items.
- E-mails & mobiles of (Iraqi
trade attaché, organizations & unions, private& governmental banks).
- Statistics of ministry of
planning and development cooperation.
- Iraqi dinar exchange
rate according to the central bank bulletin.
- Promoting Iraqi
products.
- Publishing books titles with
their authors and issuing year available in the Center's
library.
- Related links.
2.
Offering following services and facilities:
-
Video conference service
which facilitates for the investors and businessmen to have
meetings and negotiations with their peers freely and
directly.
-
Browsing through internet &
sending emails freely.
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Office facilities (printing,
copying, CD copying).
3. Providing books in (economy, investment, marketing,
banks, accounting....etc) to facilitate the work of researchers from the
private sector.
4.
Replying to inquiries through the e-mail:
Second:
Trade & Export Dept.
Attracting the professional economic organization which
represent the private sector like (federation, chambers, societies,
centers, links, ext….) and activate with them the positive cooperation
through the private sector support committee formed in the ministry
within the office by the presidency of his Excellency minister of trade
in addition to that holding forums to learn about the suggestions of
professional economic organizations and the problems of private sector
and attempting to solve them through coordinating with the Supremes
also supporting and activating the private sector work through :
1- Providing informational backup for the professional
economic organization representing private sector about exhibitions,
meetings, markets and conferences related to investment, commercial and
economic aspects.
2- Studying decisions and analyzing the projects issued by
council of ministers and committee of economic affairs or other parts
and expressing observations towards deepening their achievements.
3- Preparing studies and contributing to other tasks
related to trade and its development and promotion including reviewing
trade regulations.
4- Learning about the agreements held by the Iraqi Private
Sector and expressing opinions and observations about them also
coordinating with the Iraqi Commercial Offices abroad through Foreign
Economic Relationships Directorate to facilitate the work of private
sector
5- Taking part in special committees that concerned with
the private sector affairs in and outside the Ministry aiming at
preparing economic researches and suggestions that help in promoting
economy. Representing the Ministry and the office in the Economic
–Social Sessions which held by the relevant Ministries.
6- Contributing to support Councils held between the Iraqi
private sector and its likes in other countries like Iraqi -Syrian
Commercial Cooperation Council, Iraqi- Canadian Council, Iraqi – Indian
Council in addition to specialized Chambers of Commerce in Iraq and
world countries.
7- Taking part in evaluating Trade – Economic Provisions
Projects between Iraq and world countries.
And introducing suggestions and observations about them,
besides identifying the ingredients must be provided and substantive
ground to ensure mutual interests and benefits to both sides. Email :
Third:
Investment Dept.
This Dep. works on encouraging & promoting investment and
inducing foreign investors to benefit from their experiments to
contribute in transferring modern technology to Iraq and providing job
opportunities for the unemployed through:
1- Revealing
investment opportunities for the Iraqi – foreign investors that offered
by the national investment commission and its branches in provinces.
2- Arranging
meetings between national investment commission and foreign investors
whose applications received by our commercial offices abroad.
3- The
dept works as a coordinator within one-window section in the national
investment commission which includes coordinating members from
investment Depts. in the state ministries their responsibility is to
express opinion about the approved investment projects.
4-The
Dep. works as coordinating member between national investment commission
and ministry of trade to promote available investment opportunities
available in the ministry and its COs. through addressing them to inform
us about these opportunities in order to be send to the commission and
listed in its manual as investment opportunity
E-Mail:
Fourth:
Commercial Training Dept.
Under the new changes and the
accelerating pace of technology progress and the need to develop and
rehabilitate qualified human resources that work on the management of
private sector and the companies and directorates of the Ministry the
Training Dept provides training opportunities aiming at developing and
capacities of people working in the fields of computer, languages,
investment and commercial sciences and raising their efficiency,
through:
1-
Preparing annual plan for
the year 2011 including (48)courses in addition to workshops which will
be circulated to the organization, Federations and the Ministry
companies also publishing them on the website of Iraqi Trade
Information Center. Qualified professors from different universities,
Private Sector and Ministry staff, will execute these courses.
2-
Coordinating between the
Centers of continuing –Teaching in the Universities , Training Centers
in other Ministries in one side and the Ministry and its Companies on
the other side to take advantage of their training programs that
organized according to annual curricula
3-
Making use of training
opportunities held abroad through coordinating with the Planning and
Foreign Affairs Ministry.
4-
Training the students of
University and Institutions where the number of those who were trained
during 2010 was (52) trainees
The Dept. receives nominations
through its E-Mail: 
Fifth:
Iraqi Trade Magazine
Department
Its main purpose is to issue a specialized Iraqi Trade
Magazine in the fields of trade and investment, which concerned with
publishing of researches, studies, laws and legislations related to
private sector and its enterprises.
Aiming at:
1-providing information about trade, economy, and
investment matters.
2-promoting for private sector's companies and public
sector products through publishing advertisements about them in the
magazine at suitable prices.
3-identifying professional organizations, unions and the
ministry's directorates and companies and other ministries by publishing
their functions, aims, and achievements to be observed by businessmen
in-out Iraq at competitive prices.
- Iraqi Trade Magazine is distributed in-out side Iraq as
well as electronically published on the website of Iraqi Trade
information center(ITIC).
It is issued in both (Arabic and English) languages and
the distribution will be free to support the private sector.
Iraqi Trade Magazine Department receives contributions,
studies, and researches of the private and public sectors through the
E-mail: ,
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