Participants in a workshop organized by the Aqaba Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Risk Management Unit at the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organization to introduce the committed trader program and with the participation of a number of the city's merchants, recommended the introduction of a new category in the committed trader program for traders whose customs data is less than 12 declarations, in order to support small and medium enterprises and review the fees required to join the program implemented by the Standards and Metrology Organization in cooperation with the commercial sector and cancel all the term penalties in an incentive program for traders.
The participants in the workshop stressed the importance of cooperation and coordination between the regulatory authorities that traders deal with, represented by the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organization, Customs, Environment, Food and Drug Administration, Communications Commission, Agriculture, in addition to the need to name and identify strategic goods that are not covered by the Committed Trader Program so that they are not vague.
. The Director of the Aqaba Chamber of Commerce Amer Al-Masri stressed the need to continue holding educational workshops to introduce the importance of the program to the commercial sector, noting that 88 commercial institutions have participated in the program since its inception in 2012.
In turn, the Head of the Compliance Assessment Department in