KABUL, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — After years of negotiations, Afghanistan which applied for the membership of World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2004 finally entered the world trade body and become the 164th member of the entity in late July.
Welcoming the step as a good omen and a unique opportunity towards economic reviving of the war-torn country, Afghan experts believe that being a WTO member, Afghanistan can expand its trade and economic relations with all the other member states.
“Accession into the WTO will be a good opportunity for Afghanistan to increase its competitiveness. It will be an opportunity for the country to get the potentials to become one of the competent members of the organization,” economist and university professor Hussain Mahrammi told Xinhua recently.
Getting WTO membership is a milestone for Afghanistan towards expanding its trade relations, the analyst said , adding that the landlocked country availing the opportunity can attract foreign investment, create job opportunity and ultimately alleviate poverty.
However, the economist who is a lecturer to a private university in Kabul cautiously observed that congested roads and poor communication infrastructures could negatively affect trade activities inside Afghanistan and with its trade partners.
The militancy-plagued and landlocked Afghanistan doesn’t have standard roads, motorways nor railway linking the capital city Kabul to provinces onward to neighboring states or Europe.
It is obvious that Afghanistan has very weak infrastructures, railroad, terminals and roads and also the private companies are not standard and globally accepted, the analyst argued.
But he also expressed optimism that the accession into WTO would facilitate the Afghan government to find solution for the problems.
“Accession to the WTO is a good opportunity for Afghanistan to increase its competitiveness, but the problem is that being a member of the world entity and signing some bilateral, trilateral or multilateral agreements is very easy, but fulfilling the commitments and also implementing these agreements will be very difficult,” the analyst maintained.
Afghan drivers and their trucks are not in a capacity to be accepted internationally and their services are not standard, the analyst said, adding that fear of drug trafficking and human smuggling by Afghan drivers could be another problem for Afghanistan’s trade partners, according to analysts.
However, Mahrammi said that Afghan government can manage to overcome the problems by outlining comprehensive strategy to train drivers, send them abroad to improve capacity building and issue them license to operate on international highways.
Depending largely on foreign aid, cash-stripped Afghanistan is among the poorest countries in the world, with huge trade deficit and 36 percent of its 30 million populations living under poverty line.
Afghanistan’s export, according to a report of Central Statistic Organization, was registered at 570.50 million U.S. dollars in 2015 against 514.97 U.S. dollars in 2014.
The country’s export which includes carpet, rug, dried fruit and medicinal plants, has reportedly totaled more than 600 million U.S. dollars so far this year and the import in the consuming nation has reached to more than 5 billion U.S. dollars.
Afghan economic experts also believe that accession into WTO enables Afghan traders to export more goods to the member states.
“On one word, it is a very unique opportunity for Afghanistan to become part of WTO, to become part of the world economy and to make a contribution to the world trade, otherwise Afghanistan will be isolated as it was, being away from WTO means isolation, and isolation means weak economy, weak people and resources,” the well-respected analyst observed.
IT IS A IMPOSED WAR-BASED ECONOMY- it can not be revived.
IT IS 100% designed as a bastion of war-based bonanza since the invasion of 2091 at the order of masters of crazy George Bush.
THE ECONOMY IS TOTALLY AT THE MERCY OF THE ANGLO/US RATS.
The war criminals hate Muslims; they would never allow a real HONORABLE home-grown economy to flourish.
THAT MEANS; EITHER YOU LIVE UNSER THE WHIMS OF THE WAR CRIMINALS OR LIVE AS ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED CHATTAELS FROM ENGLAND AND THE US.
That is the truth- check it out.
The only way out is:
To kick the megalameniacs; Warmongers: war criminals; Camp-Followers; Mercenaries and all other enslaved entities out of Afghanistan and the “whole region”.
That is the only honorable choice left for more than 300 millions of people
north of India.
THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO CHOICES !
It is an imposed war-based economy-
Corrections:
– meant Anglo/US invasion of 2001
– Two options:
Either iving under the economic enslavements of the Anglo/US war criminals or go for the liberation of the whole region.
I will personally pick the later choice just about any time.
PLEASE !
Afghanistan is not a war-torn, (“WAR-TORN”) country.
THE ANGLO/US INVADERS HAVE INSTALLED A WAR-BASED ECONOMY.
THE REASON IT IS NOT A WAR-TORN COUNTRY IS THAT :
THE STATE OF ANARCHY HAS BEEN IMPOSED BY OVERWHELMING SAVAGE MILITARY FORCES OF THE INVADERS AND IT HAD BEEN SUSTAINED BY THE VERY SAME INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMINALS.
AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN VICTIMIZED BY WAR CRIMINSLS OF THE ANGLO/US ORIGIN (THEIR MILITARY STRATEGISTS).
THAT IS IT !
You have no argument over that statement unless you are suffering from mental illness.
You destroy the whole and its infrastructures and then cowardly blame it on powerless locals.
War-torn- nonsense !
THAT MEANS:
INVADERS MUST
GET OUT OF
AFGHANISTAN !
You have repeatedly proven your illness- there is no hesitation on that !
GET LOST !
Afghanistan is the richest country on natural resources but yet still has been kept the poorest of all.
Thanks to two hundreds of years of atrocities; invasions and blockades of all sorts by English authorities.
Unfortunately the sick policies are still exercised in full force.
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The whole region, from Pakistsn to Central Asia, badly needs to get economically revitalized. It could be achieved only through self-reliance and skilled local labor forces.
YOU WON’T ALLOW STRSNGERS, especially the ones with ulterior motives, TO COME IN YOUR HOME AND INTERFERE IN all critical APRCTS OF YOUR LIFE !
That is exactly what the megalameniacs are indexing to DO IN AFGHANISTAN AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS- but miserably failing.
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* Give my country back- I will turn it to a shining example for all the humanity across the continents.
It has all the finely-faceted reflecting angles to make it work and dazzle !
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