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Palestinian Companies are
facing great difficulties in importing
networking or
communication products such as computer
related hardware (routers, modems, hubs and even
network cabling), faxes, printers and
photocopiers. The majority of those are imported
from USA manufacturer such as; HP, 3Com, Cisco
and others, as a mater of fact some are now
bounded at the Israeli custom ports resulting in
large loses to the importing companies. Israeli
custom authorities explanation are “that they
require authorization from the military
authority (civil administration in West Bank and
Gaza), some of PITA members have tried to obtain
this authorization but with no success so far.
This was not the case
before the beginning of this year 2002!
PITA members have reported
this matter to the US consulate, Jerusalem and
commercial section, Tel Aviv US Embassy but
receive no answer back!
Palestinians are free to
buy these equipment freely from the Israeli
market which makes us suspect the motive behind
this arbitrary move and which flies in the face
of all trade agreements between or two nations,
and view this as a deliberate interference in
Palestinian trade with the world and US
particular.
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