Anxious to establish an approach favoring international cooperation based on the winning/winning principle and the spirit of respect for mutual interests between Tunisia and the other brothers and friends countries, the Head of state makes every effort to establish a trade policy based on balance.
The press – Indeed, and contrary to the prejudices propagated by occult and malicious forces, new Tunisia has continued, since the advent of the July 25, 2021 process and, even more precisely, since the re -election high the hand of the President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed for a second term, to grant a particular solicit to the economic aspect while impregnating a social touch in order to benefit from all remote, from the country, dividends of the work of development.
It is therefore, in this context, that the President of the Republic by receiving, at the end of the weekend, the Minister of Commerce and Development of Exports, wanted to focus on the need to proceed with the “search for new export markets, especially in Africa, in Asia, as well as in several countries of South America in order to promote a balanced trade in our country”.
However, the other face of all trade lies in import activities generating, sometimes or often, imbalances that certain parts qualify as a simple setback of the medal and a necessary evil, which is not entirely true, even if the sector is governed by a whole arsenal of laws as claimed by certain actors in matters of importation, since said laws can very well be amended and revised in a more profitable sense.
Aware of the importance of this situation, the President of the Republic said that the State is obliged to rationalize imports which require considerable expenses in strong currencies to be mobilized for the payment of products of which only a small number of importers and a minority of consumers benefit.
President Saïed did not hesitate to say, in substance, that he is “Absurd and intolerable to evoke commercial imbalances with certain countries while many imported products are neither essential, nor impossible to produce locally, or even completely superfluous, without forgetting that among these products, there are some who are well on the local market …”.
It must be said that there are, barely twenty days, the Head of State dealt with this question by receiving the Minister of Finance, to underline that, added to tax justice, the rationalization of the volume of imports constitutes a powerful lever in order to restore the country’s budgetary balances insofar as the reduction of non -essential imports, would contribute to more economic justice.
In other words, it is imperative to carry out a meticulous study of Tunisia trade relations with the different countries in order to see with precision the balance of exchanges with these countries and determine the degree of excess or deficit, knowing that the key word reiterated by the head of state was that of avoiding the import of unnecessary products on the local scene.
In any event, President Kaïs Saïed is proving that he gives a place of choice to socioeconomic promotion in his project for Tunisia while being attentive to the realization of major financial balances and the substantial improvement in living conditions in the context of a vision in favor of a strategy of global and sustainable development intended, in fine, to make the Tunisian people benefit from dignity and prosperity and prosperity to which he aspires.
