The Ministry of Social Development and Family, in cooperation with the General Authority of Customs, represented by the Customs and Regional Training Center, organized a workshop on “Customs Procedures for Owners of Private and Home Enterprises”, which aims to achieve familiarity with customs laws related to owners of small projects, and to introduce ways to import project requirements under licenses granted to them, and to avoid customs violations. The Ministry of Social Development and Family is making great strides in the supporting the productive families of home and small business owners, in addition to the qualitative initiatives that it is launching with the aim of providing social care directly to the Qatari family, in an effort to provide social support for groups that entitles to care in direct manner, in order to achieve an strategic and developmental goal in the first place which is to ensure that families will not become dependent, this is achieved through development goals that help them find opportunities to empower themselves.
The Customs Procedures Workshop for the owners of private and home projects is part of a series of awareness lectures organized by the Ministry with the aim of achieving its vision towards directing the efforts of the institutions concerned with the family economically for self-reliance, developing and implementing projects to support and develop productive families, through training and aiding services, and providing areas for marketing their products. Moussa Mohamed Musleh, a customs training expert, reviewed the electronic services provided by the General Authority of Customs, including defining the Harmonized System clause related to goods, issuing advance rulings related to customs classification, providing statistics on the types of goods that are imported into the country during a specified period of time, and providing the ability to search. In the customs tariff schedules, identifying the rates of customs duties, providing various work guides, in addition to allocating tools to receive inquiries and comments from those interested, and answer them around the clock. The Ministry of Social Development and Family, represented by the Department of Family Affairs, is keen to introduce the participants to home projects as the businesses that are established in the homes of the owners, which aim to make profit, whatever their size or the nature of their activity, to achieve a monthly financial return that provide social security for them.