The Minister of Trade, Atheer Al-Ghurairy, affirmed today, Tuesday, keenness to deal with American companies to supply American wheat to Iraq.

The Ministry of Trade said in a statement: “The Minister met in his office with a delegation of experts from the American Wheat Council to discuss the possibility of importing wheat for the purposes of producing commercial zero flour within the ministry’s project that it adopted with the private sector,” noting that “the meeting took place in the presence of the General Manager of the General Company for Grain Trade, Haider Nouri Al-Karawi and Director General of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Riyad Fakher Al-Hashemi.

It added: “The visit of the delegation of experts of the American Wheat Council came as a continuation of the invitation that the Council had previously extended to the Ministry of Trade to visit Washington and conduct discussions of cooperation in this field, which resulted in the agreement on the experts’ visit to Iraq to see the need of the Iraqi market for the purpose of studying it and supporting Iraq in the place of supplying wheat for the purpose of producing the best types of zero flour.

During the meeting, Al-Ghurairy reviewed “the work of the Iraqi private mills sector, the Ministry’s project to produce zero flour, and the possibility of developing those mills.”

He stressed, “The Ministry of Trade’s keenness to deal with discreet American companies to supply American wheat to Iraq with the best quality and prices, and the possibility of international and American companies entering and cooperating in this field to reach suitable prices that serve both parties.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency