Syria Imports and Exports of Stone Mines and Stone(1/21/2010)

Syria stone industries develop rapidly. Syria is rich in mineral resources marble, granite mining is one of its important resources. Syria since ancient times, stone, marble, mosaic, and other Damascus, famous for stone art processing technology, excellent location and color-rich stone resources, and other factors, so that Syria granite and marble processing leader.

From 1980 to 2000, Syria, prohibiting stone import and export, although Syria has an abundance of stone reserves, in particular, beige and yellow marble and other granite products, but very few stone production. With the stone in 2001 after the lifting of the ban on the import and export, combined with Syria social and economic environment, the opening up of Syria support of good policies and good investment environment in Syria stone extraction and processing volume increased substantially in Syria Stone industrial investment increased rapidly, many of which Europe and the United States of stone mining contractors are factories in Syria.

The Syrian Government in 2006 issued a decree allowing imports of granite, wool board, at present there are many companies from Italy, China and India import of granite plates. Syria marble imported mainly from Turkey, Egypt, including the stone blocks, slabs, blocks of which import tariffs to 0, plate import duty of 10%.

The Syrian Government "Tenth Five-Year" Plan (2006-2010) the majority of a total of six, including three involved in the development of building materials industry, including in 2010, to achieve the construction sector growth rate to reach 10%; and construction of 483,000 new residential units to improve the 687,000 sets of the original houses; increasing the annual tourism growth in the proportion of building a tourist area construction projects and facilities. In the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" under the guidance of Syria many construction projects begun or is about to commence, including the World Trade Center in Damascus, Damascus airport expansion projects and nearly 100 tourism investment projects.

In the strong growth driver for construction projects, as well as neighboring countries, the huge demand for the reconstruction of Lebanon, the Syrian demand for various types of stone products, showed a substantial growth trend.

(by China Leiyuan, 1/21/2010)