Pact binding govt organs to use domestic products signed

KABUL (Pajhwok): An agreement was signed on Saturday between the National Procurement Authority (NPA) and the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries, binding all government departments to use domestic products.

Ilham Omar Hotak, NPA chief, told the agreement-signing gathering that the government must procure domestic products despite being 25 percent expensive.

Hotak said after signing this agreement, all government administrations were bound to use domestic products.

“Earlier when I would ask government departments that why they do not use domestic products? They would talk about the low quality of these products, but it would no longer be an issue,” Hotak said.

Hotak claimed that according to the agreement, the Afghanistan chamber of industries would guarantee the quality of products in order to use them with surety.

ShirbazKaminzada, chief of Afghanistan chamber of industries, urged industrialists to deliver their products to the market keeping in mind their quantity, quality and competitiveness. Shirbaz stressed that all industrialists must standardize their products.

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