KABUL Steel Mills Union (ASMU) on Sunday said the smuggling of scrap metal to neighbouring countries was hurting the local industry badly.
The union warned if the smuggling of scrap steel was not stopped, the local steel mills – a $450 million investment -- would go in vain and all the mills would stop functioning.
Parvaiz Khawajazada, head of the ASMU, told reporters in Kabul that over $450 million had been invested in 38 steel mills where over 12,000 people worked.
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