00:00 The people who have copper stuck up for more than a year and a half and all this while,
00:05 if they could allow them to give them some indemnation to sell this copper, that what
00:10 they have, that they could be able to sell this copper and the new copper that they're
00:15 buying, when the industry opened back, they were able to sell back the copper that they're
00:19 buying now.
00:20 An appeal by the president of the Scrap Iron Dealers Association to the government, as
00:26 the ban on exporting copper remains in place.
00:30 In August 2022, the government announced a ban on scrap metal exports in response to
00:36 the rampant theft of copper lines.
00:39 We will expose anybody who is involved in this.
00:43 That is what the association could do.
00:45 We can't give you the insurance that a fella down the road can't go and keep copper line
00:49 or do that.
00:50 We can't do that because we are not the police and even the police can't give insurance to
00:54 that.
00:55 Scrap iron dealers are allowed to do business with other scrap metals.
00:59 Ferguson spoke with reporters on Thursday after meeting with officials at the Ministry
01:04 of Trade.
01:05 The license for the scrap yard up in the 14th of next month, we discussed that, which all
01:13 of us as scrap yards have to apply for a new license.
01:18 The Scrap Iron Dealers Association is hoping it's not a drawn out process to get a new
01:24 license to operate.
01:25 If it don't work out on time, well then they will ask for extension, but they cannot say
01:32 we could get no extension at the moment now because how it is, they cannot give extension.
01:39 Is the Attorney General and the Minister of National Security when they sit down and know
01:44 what they're doing.
01:45 According to Ferguson, the trade ministry has promised to work with scrap iron dealers
01:50 to address the issues affecting the industry.
01:54 Anselm Gibbs, TV6 News.
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