{"id":257383,"date":"2026-06-19T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=257383"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:45:11","slug":"exclusive-before-his-dismissal-al-huwaij-approved-a-new-import-levy-that-imposes-additional-costs-on-citizens-to-benefit-the-export-development-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/exclusive-before-his-dismissal-al-huwaij-approved-a-new-import-levy-that-imposes-additional-costs-on-citizens-to-benefit-the-export-development-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Before His Dismissal, Al-Huwaij Approved a New Import Levy That Imposes Additional Costs on Citizens to Benefit the Export Development Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to sources cited by our source, former Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed Al-Huwaij issued a directive to the Head of the Customs Authority ordering the immediate collection of an additional <strong>0.75% fee on imports of finished goods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The correspondence reportedly stipulates that all revenues collected from this levy be transferred directly to the account of the Libyan Export Development Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources told Sada that the fee has been imposed on imported goods that constitute an essential part of the local market\u2019s needs. As a result, imports will bear additional financial costs intended to finance the Export Development Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report further notes that the measure comes at a time when citizens are already facing continued increases in living costs and consumer prices, meaning that the additional charges on imports could ultimately be reflected in the prices paid by consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources cited by our source, former Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed Al-Huwaij issued a directive to the Head of the Customs Authority ordering the immediate collection of an additional 0.75% fee on imports of finished goods. The correspondence reportedly stipulates that all revenues collected from this levy be transferred directly to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":257384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-257383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-libya"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257385,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257383\/revisions\/257385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}