Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) said on Wednesday that its inspectors have closed six companies specialized in shipping food supplies as they were planning to send locally-subsidized goods overseas. Legal measures are being completed against these firms to refer them to the prosecution as they violated the executive regulation No. 117 of 2013, the ministry added in a press statement.
The statement stressed that MoCI will not allow the shipping of these supplies outside the country, and pointed out that its teams, in cooperation with Kuwait’s General Administration of Customs, conducted investigations over several companies across the country to make sure that any subsidized commodities are not shipped out. It affirmed that it will take legal measures against the violators, indicating that subsidized supplies aim at mitigating the sufferings of citizens and achieving food stability as Kuwait deals with the impact of the coronavirus.
Source: KUNA