According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been severely shut down by diplomatic ties. At that time, it was widely believed that Iran could gain a large share of the Qatar market by exporting its goods to Qatar.

Over time, Iran has failed to gain its share of the Qatari market in conditions of economic siege. The question is, why did Iranian goods fail to conquer Qatar markets? On June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain broke off diplomatic relations with Qatar for political reasons.

After that, other countries supported the move and cut ties with Qatar. These countries were Libya, Maldives, Senegal, Mauritania, Comoros, Niger and Gabon. The Jordanian government also said it would lower its diplomatic relations with Qatar.

With diplomatic ties cut, all land, air and sea routes to Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries were closed on Qatar. This means that Qatar has been besieged by these countries. With the siege of Qatar's economic blockade, Iran and neighboring countries such as Turkey and Oman were given an exceptional opportunity.

The Qatar market was now in their possession and could increase their share of the market by increasing their exports to Qatar. Statistics on Iranian exports to various countries, compiled and published by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs, can answer this question.

In 2016, Iran's total exports to various countries amounted to forty-four billion dollars. This year, when Qatar had not yet been sanctioned by Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries, Iran's exports to the country amounted to $ 1.3 million and Qatar was the thirty-second destination for Iranian exported goods.

Qatar's market share of Iranian exported goods in 2016 was 23%. In 1986, Iran's total exports to various countries amounted to forty-six and nine billion dollars.

This year, Iran exported to Qatar 200.28 million dollars and Qatar is in the 23rd position. Qatar's market share of Iran's export commodities in 1986 was fifty-two percent.

In the first nine months of 1977, Iran's total exports to various countries amounted to thirty-three billion dollars, and Qatar was the 22nd largest destination for exported Iranian goods. In the first nine months of this year, Iran exported $ 800 million to Qatar.

Qatar's market share of Iranian exported goods in the nine months of 1979 was fifty-five percent. It should also be noted that Qatar was one of the fastest growing trade areas with 2018, with the expected volume of equations of 2 billion, according to Turkish Deputy Finance Minister Osman Dinchbash, speaking at the Doha Trade Fair in Doha. Is the dollar, grow in the future. As can be seen, Iran has never been able to obtain a significant share of the Qatari market while Qatar has been facing an economic blockade.

Adnan Musa Pour, chairman of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Qatar, on the reasons for Iran's failure to gain a significant share of the Qatar market after the economic siege, said: "I need to answer this question first to go back and Let me mention our exports to Iraq when the Ba'athist regime and Saddam fell. At that time, our exports to Iraq were very high and most of Iraq's goods were supplied by Iran. At that time there was no news from Turkey, Kuwait or other countries in the Iraqi market, but after a short time Sadly, the authorities unfortunately we went to the point where this market was gradually abandoned by Iranian exporters and we now have a very small share of this market. Now with this introduction we can come to the issue of Qatar. The reason we can't export to Qatar is because our goods do not meet the required standards. Qatar has an ASTM standard for importing goods, which is an American and international standard. Any item that wishes to enter Qatar must meet this standard. Unfortunately, most of our products do not have this international standard for export to Qatar. The second reason is that we had too much exports to Qatar. For example, when Qatar was declared in need of dairy after the siege of Qatar, our dairy producers exported it immensely. As a result, one liter of milk from one of the most famous dairy brands in the country where four and a half riyals (Qatari currency) were sold is now priced at one rial and has no customers. The third reason relates to the packaging of our goods. To clarify this, I have to say that in the Qatar market there are six different colored peppers in a beautiful box with a total weight of one hundred and fifty grams coming from the Netherlands. The price of this bag of chili peppers is seventy riyals (Qatari currency), which will cost us about 10,000 dollars. Next to these Dutch peppers are Iranian peppers, which are exported from Iran with banana cartons and vary in size and are offered at Qatar hypermarkets for three rials. The fourth reason is that our exporters face the problem of returning the currency from their exports to the country. Now the government is forcing exporters to return the currency of their exports to the country, so how to return the currency when our banks are boycotted? Here, exporters have to resort to disposable and face-to-face business cards that no longer need to put the dollar back into the banking cycle. It can be said that rather than external sanctions harassing exporters, it is domestic sanctions that hurt exporters. "The most important proposal is to monitor the goods that are to be exported to Qatar," said the head of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Qatar, as to what suggestions the chamber has for increasing Iran's market share. The Chamber of Commerce of Iran and Qatar has proposed stamping the certificate of origin of goods to be exported to Qatar. This leads to the fact that the room, knowing the Qatar market well, that the commodity to be exported has the quality and standards required to enter the Qatar market. Or is the commodity to be exported required by Qatar? Also when this happens, we can then advise the exporter on how to import its currency under sanctions. The second proposal is to formulate an export strategy to Qatar by the Qatar Chamber of Commerce. At the end, Musa Pour pointed to Iran's insignificant share of the Qatar market: Turkey has now captured the market with its own goods, and India, Pakistan and Oman have a significant share of the Qatar market.