{"id":639220,"date":"2017-10-24T03:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/10\/24\/egypt-us-israel-to-discuss-qiz-program-next-month\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T03:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:47:44","slug":"egypt-us-israel-to-discuss-qiz-program-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/10\/24\/egypt-us-israel-to-discuss-qiz-program-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, US, Israel to discuss QIZ program next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Egypt, US, Israel to discuss QIZ program next month<\/strong>: Egypt will push to reduce the mandatory Israeli content in goods exported to the US under the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) program to 8% instead of the current 10% during a meeting with US and Israeli officials next month, head of the Trade and Industry Ministry\u2019s QIZ unit Ashraf El Rabie said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almalnews.com\/Story\/350361\/14\/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1\">Al Mal reports<\/a>. The ministry also sent a joint letter with Israel appealing to Washington to resolve <strong>Egypt\u2019s \u201ccrisis\u201d with Disneyland, which <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/03\/15\/egypt-reportedly-asks-israel-to-solve-a-supply-crisis-with-disneyland-inc\/\"><strong>banned imports from 28 Egyptian textile manufacturers<\/strong><\/a><strong> earlier this year<\/strong> over concerns about labor conditions in Egypt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almalnews.com\/Story\/350365\/61\/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%86-%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%AD%D8%B8%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%8A\">according to Rabie<\/a>. Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/04\/06\/el-sisis-fox-news-interview-hits-the-screens-president-meets-with-imf-chief-christine-lagarde-us-defense-secretary-and-national-intelligence-director-on-fifth-day-of-visit\/\">had been lobbying since April<\/a> to bring down the Israeli content quota and to resolve the issue with Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rabie also called on Egyptian businesses to take greater advantage of the QIZ agreement<\/strong> and put aside their personal feelings about Israel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almalnews.com\/Story\/350346\/15\/%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2-%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%B3-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%A9-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9\">the newspaper reports<\/a>. As <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/10\/22\/us-egypt-israel-considering-adding-tech-companies-to-qiz-program\/\">we noted earlier this week<\/a>, the three countries are currently in talks to expand the program to include tech companies, since ready-made garments and food products account for the lion\u2019s share of industries benefiting from the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt, US, Israel to discuss QIZ program next month: Egypt will push to reduce the mandatory Israeli content in goods exported to the US under the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) program to 8% instead of the current 10% during a meeting with US and Israeli officials next month, head of the Trade and Industry Ministry\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-639220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"dcc9a799-69f2-4e25-950e-976767555d52","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"d37494f4-ba05-4af0-b540-43094423d998","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[639204],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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