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Border Closure: All Imported Goods Must Have 30% Local Input - FG

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The Federal Government on Monday said goods coming into the country must have 30 per cent local input. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama stated this during the meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Temporary Partial Closure of Land Borders held at the ministry.

 

The Minister also stated that ECOWAS countries must respect rules of origin, vowing that Nigeria will no longer tolerate repackaging of imported goods.

 

Source privy to developments that occurred in the meeting said these were some of the conditions handed down to ECOWAS countries clamouring the re-opening of the land borders which were shut over smuggling of rice, guns and other contrabands into Nigeria from the neighbouring countries.

 

He maintained that goods imported for the Nigerian market must be escorted directly from the port of member states directly to the borders.

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