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    "id": 317381,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Twaha",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yasin Fahim Twaha",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a trend of levying duties on exports of raw materials like cashew nuts and now hides and skins ostensibly to protect local industries. Does that work where your imports are liberalized and your exports are controlled? If you have a liberal economy then it should be liberalized both ways. What happens is that the cost of the tax is passed on to the farmer in lower receipts. What the Ministry is doing is to force farmers to subsidize the new infant industries which may not succeed due to the high cost of energy and other things. Why can the Assistant Minister not liberalize the export of raw materials like hides and skins and cashew nuts just as the importation of the finished products is liberalized? That way, we will have a level playing field."
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