Industrial activity is one of the pillars of the economic development of any country. It
includes a long and varied series of productive processes that provide a high rate of
economic growth. The importance of foreign trade in development is eviden
ced by
securing the requirements of raw materials, capital goods and the source of currencies,
Therefore, the success of any real development experience requires an effective industrial
sector that has a positive impact on the foreign trade sector and this is reflected in the
transition of the national economy towards achieving important steps in the field of
economic development. The study aimed to find a standard model based on the ECM
model to predict the volume of industrial imports by studying the relationship between
industrial investment and industrial imports. It concluded that this model could be a
scientific basis for the development of economic and social development plans.
The research aims to identify the role that foreign trade plays in the
Syrian economy,
They are an important part of the national economy, and which is
secured need the economy to build production capacity of capital
goods, and through the discha
rge of the flooding of the need for
domestic demand of the product, and therefore the external sector
developments reflect the productive structure of the national
economy, employment and price and income level. . and also the
effects of economic policies.
The researcher has addressed the economic reforms that directly
affect the foreign trade, and then analyzed the structure of the
foreign trade to discover the real economic potentials and the
necessary requirements for the promotion.
The search is focused on the importance of Syrian exports to the national economy،
its role of community development; and improve all economic indicators، and their direct
and basic role; and a high rate of economic growth and increasing foreign ex
change and
trade balance adjustment، reduce unemployment and increase cope positively with the
world economy; and improve other sectors of activation and improved exchange rate and
increase foreign exchange and improve conditions for foreign trade، equity and index of
trade integration and the improvement of quality and increase competitiveness، The
importance of this research is we are in urgent need current، specifically since the start of
the war to Syria since mid- March 2011، to increase foreign exchange and activate
economic sectors especially we're rebuilding. This needs to activate economic cycle and
increase exports، especially industrial and rationalizing imports، particularly of luxury.
This and requires induced economic sector arrangement. We have chosen the agriculture
sector، and the need to go to increase agricultural exports. We'll focus on it in our present
search، hoping to succeed in serving our country to withstand economic backbone and
Foundation of all other types of resilience.
The theme of this research mainly focuses on the effects of the reductions in the rates of customs duties on Syrians commodity imports. In the line with the process of foreign trade liberalization in Syria. Where that Syria has recently tended toward
s its foreign trade liberalization, and open markets, and engaged in regional and international partnerships. The study used economical analysis method to study some indicators relating to customs duties and foreign trade in Syria. So the research reached to some important results, that the process of reducing customs duties that associated with foreign tread liberalization, has contributed significantly to the increase in the volume of commodity imports, which led to an aggravation defect in our trade balance, and deterioration the terms of trade exchange, in addition to the significant decline in the rate of customs proceeds to imports in the national economy.
And that needs primary reducing the dependence on imports in our economic activity, and trending towards activation the alternatives imports industry, especially those that constitute a burden on our trade balance.
Inaddition to try to find some other recommendations that serve the aim of research.
This study addresses the nature of the role played by the private sector in the Syrian economy by monitoring the evolution of the size and quality of this role particularly in the foreign trade sector. The importance of that springs as a result of in
creasing reliance upon it as a development engine in developing countries when the transition to a market economy model with orientation to open up to the international economy and the liberalization of foreign trade, when the reliance is upon the dynamics of the private sector to play a main role in this period.
In the light of adopting the model of social economic market and the liberalization of Syrian foreign trade, the private sector has been given an increasing role in production and foreign trade activities. That was combined with the retrieve of public sector. The private sector in Syria had approved its dynamics and ability to meet the given role through increasing its activity in industrial production and its share in export especially in manufactured export.
