Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has emphasized his ministry’s resolve to provide world-class services to industrialists.

“You will see the launch of several new electronic services by the ministry shortly,” he told delegates attending a business forum at Asharqia Chamber.

He said the ministry would make adequate land available for those who want to establish new industries.

“We have adopted a new mechanism to recall vehicles having technical faults in coordination with automobile manufacturing companies,” Al-Rabiah said while answering a question.

Eastern Province Gov. Prince Saud bin Naif opened the forum that focuses on two important issues: Retail trade and e-business.

Al-Rabiah said the ministry would continue its campaign to eradicate illegal cover-up (tasattur) businesses from the country.

“Tasattur is a disease and we’ll fight it using all means. We are now following tasattur cases through field inspections,” he said while calling for tougher measures to end the phenomenon.

Al-Rabiah said the Labor Ministry has agreed to provide visas to recruit any number of foreign workers required by industries and businesses as long as they follow the Saudization conditions.

“Labor Minister Adel Fakeih has personally expressed his support for this matter and if anyone faces problems in this respect it would be individual cases and we should be informed about it.”

He said there is a new move to reduce Saudization rate among companies that are export-oriented.

“The rate of Saudization at industries is much less compared to service firms,” he pointed out.

“The same incentives have been provided to industrial cities in remote areas,” he said.

Speaking about the monopoly issue, he said the Court of Grievances is currently looking into 80 such cases, adding that monopoly would kill fair competition.

“Our ministry is determined to end monopoly,” he added.

“We don’t protect agents of international companies. If anybody wants to import products of same specifications sold by agents we would encourage them and force agents to provide these businesses with guarantees,” the minister said while advising businesses to use Arabic names.