The Minister of Trade and Industry decided to ban the export of sugar (of all kinds), except for quantities surplus to the needs of the local market, which are estimated by the Ministry of Supply, for a period of 3 months.
The last decision to ban the export of sugar was last March, and the ban will continue until June.
It is scheduled that the decision will be circulated to customs outlets during the beginning of next week, to be activated, as the ban was issued on March 24.
Ali Al-Moselhi, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, said that the export of sugar had been completely stopped, noting that despite the existence of a strategic reserve, the local market needed it.
Al-Moselhi added during a press conference that he took over the Ministry of Supply during the period of the sugar crisis and its unavailability in 2017, and the reason for that was that sugar was exported in 2017 under the pretext that there was self-sufficiency in sugar, saying: “Whatever the home needs is forbidden to the collector.”
Al-Moselhi stressed that if the import is opened, it will be exported abroad, and the local market will not find a single bag of sugar, because the global price of sugar is twice as high, which makes a lot of sugar exported abroad.
The Customs Authority confirmed that the items are, namely cane sugar, beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in its solid state.
Among the items that are not included in sugar are lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose.
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