Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The Syria-Jordan free trade area will start working again in April after four-year pause due to the Syrian war, local media reported on Wednesday.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed media outlet reported that the Jordanian Interior Ministry authorized on Monday the reinstatement of the free trade area, with the training of personnel now underway.

Annual trade within the Syrian-Jordanian free trade area, which was established back in the 1970s, amounted to about $1.5 billion before the Syrian conflict broke out.

Last October, a vital checkpoint on the Syrian-Jordanian border the Nassib crossing, which allows goods to be transported from Turkey and Lebanon to the Persian Gulf through Syria and Jordan and vice versa was reopened.

The border crossing was captured by terrorists in 2015, and the Syrian government did not regain control over it until July 2018.

After over seven years of fighting, Damascus has finally regained control over most of the country's territories that were previously seized by terrorist groups. The Syrian government is now focused on rebuilding vital infrastructure to welcome back Syrian refugees who have fled the war.

*Sputnik