The Trade and Industry Ministry is mulling issuing four “exceptional” steel manufacturing licenses to resolve recent instability in the steel market resulted from a decision by the ministry last month to impose a 15% duty tax on steel imports, an Industrial Development Authority official said, according to Hapi Journal. The licenses would be issued under new conditions made for the resolution of the crisis, the source said.
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