Ammon News -

Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Youssef Shamali on Tuesday decided to retain a previous decision preventing the export and re-export of some essential food items" as part of the measures taken to preserve the strategic stock of food commodities", according to a ministry statement.

Staples and foodstuffs targeted by the decision include rice, sugar, dried milk, dry legumes, fodder, wheat and by-products, flour, fodder maize, fodder concentrates, as well as ghee and vegetable oils of all kinds (corn oil, sunflower oil, palm oil and soybean oil).