The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has valued the reopening of the commercial customs of Melilla with the neighboring country, after yesterday there was a passage of documented goods from our city to Morocco, and has stressed that “a new stage is opening with the recovery of commercial relations with the neighboring country.”
The head of the Government Delegation, in statements to the media, has pointed out that, with the export of household appliances that took place yesterday, “we continue to take another step towards that normalization”.
A normalization, he said, that began to take the different tests that “have been necessary so that today we can have this commercial customs in operation”, thanks to which it was possible to detect all the technical issues that have had to be solved so that Melilla can have new commercial relations with the neighboring country “of the 21st century”.
One customs office, it has apostilled, that is going to help the business fabric grow and have other niches of market and has stressed that it is going to allow Melilla “not only to have to look to the north, not only to have to look to the south or only to the east or west, but to look in all directions and, above all, to become an attractive territory so that everyone can also look at us”.
“The news today is this reopening of customs and that, progressively, it will be possible every day to introduce or export goods to Morocco,” said Moh, who insisted that “it is a good thing for Melilla and for the Melillenses” given that it is “an achievement that benefits us as a city.”
“Commercial customs, despite all the agoreros, has managed to reopen and, from now on, the important thing is to work in coordination and work to continue moving forward and improving these commercial relations with Morocco,” he said.
Like Algeciras
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city recalled that the reopening of commercial customs was one of the points included in the Integral Plan approved by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez and that this measure was contemplated “after having listened to all sectors of the city”.
“The reopening of customs was a request of the business fabric, of different entities, of associations, and of the different political parties of our city,” he recalled. Therefore, he made it clear that “we fulfill another of the commitments and our own project for the revitalization of the economy.” “We are now talking about the first stage of a new phase, a new commercial phase,” he said.
At this point, Moh has clarified that last day 8 what happened was a purely technical issue, for a reason of fees, that had nothing to do with the negotiation between the two countries or with a political issue, especially when “from the moment the truck enters and can be dispatched it is understood that there is already a commercial customs in force.”
In her speech to media professionals, the Government Delegate stressed that the commercial customs office will not have the same operation as it had in 2018. “Now we have a commercial customs office to be able to do that exchange of documented goods as happens in other points of the territory,” he said.
Something very important given that “it was one of the issues that have always been requested: if the merchandise passed with certain conditions and characteristics from Algeciras, that in Melilla we wanted to have those same conditions and that is what has been worked on and that is what has been achieved right now”, he stressed.
“To continue moving forward and for Melilla’s economy to continue growing, we cannot yearn for past recipes, we cannot yearn for atypical trade or trade relations that are not equal to what is understood in any area of the national territory,” he warned, and for this reason he has highlighted the fact that “a modern commercial customs office, with the requirements requested elsewhere in the Spanish territory, is what guarantees the proper functioning of the same face to the future.”
Meeting with entrepreneurs
Sabrina Moh has stressed that this process will have different stages since the market will have to be regulated. “We are going to have another focus right now, another point where we can set our sights for that economic development within the city itself,” he said, referring to the business sector that, once customs is open, will carry out trade relations with Morocco based on the law of supply and demand.
Precisely as far as the business sector is concerned, the Delegate has announced that she will hold a meeting with them next week to discuss the news and “in case they also have any technical difficulties, to be able to collaborate through the services available to us from the General Administration of the State, either customs or from any agency that needs help”.
Moh, who recalled that “nobody was betting on the reopening of commercial customs in Melilla”, said that “we will continue working in the travel regime”.