Decorative stone export decline to eighth
Deputy Minister of Small Industries and Industrial Estates of Iran: During the same period last year, cement, gypsum and stone were the second largest exports of small and medium enterprises (after food), due to tariff restrictions imposed this year. Iraqis dropped to eighth.
According to Asghar Mosheb International, Iran's Stone Exhibition reported that this amount was exported by nine hundred industrial settlements, despite export restrictions, compared to the same period last year. Exporters have declined, but their exports have increased.
The official noted: In the first half of this year, $ 1.5 billion was exported by small and medium-sized enterprises located in industrial towns, up more than 30 percent from the same period last year.
He noted: Iraq with $ 300 million, Afghanistan $ 200 and $ 166 million and Pakistan $ 51 million were the first three export destinations of these units during the mentioned period, followed by UAE and Turkmenistan in fourth place. And placed fifth.
The food, home appliances, polymer and plastic materials, chemicals, rugs, leather and handbags are the major export commodities, the interviewee continued.
He said: During the same period last year, cement, gypsum and stone were the second-largest exports of small and medium-sized enterprises (after food), which dropped to eighth this year due to tariff restrictions imposed by Iraqis. .
Deputy Minister of Small Industries and Industrial Estates of Iran Small Industries said: Focus on exports to neighboring countries is one of the seven axes of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade this year that have $ 100,000 and 300 billion import capacity.
He said: Helping set up export management companies and forming export consortiums (integrating manufacturing and export units to supply their goods with a joint brand or jointly) are two major activities that the organization is developing to export firms. Small and medium.
The official said: To date, there are seventy-two export consortiums and sixty-five export management companies operating and operating.
Support knowledge of foundations and startups
The interviewee also announced the establishment of three hundred and twelve knowledge-based companies in settlements and industrial areas, adding: "Through their consultants, the organization is identifying talented knowledge-based companies that have so far identified four hundred and thirty-three units. And.
He said: In the past year, there have been fifty-seven events aimed at supporting startups organized by the Small Industries and Industrial Cities Organization and supported in three areas: infrastructure, technology development and commercialization and market development.
According to the official, so far two hundred and twenty-eight ideas have been identified in these events.
Reactivation of stagnant and semi-active units
He announced the resettlement of more than 600 stagnant and semi-active units in industrial settlements, which have been introduced through clinical and consulting services, the introduction of new investors to them or in interaction with banks.
Vice President of the Small Industries Organization noted that the organization has helped twelve small and medium-sized companies in the seven months of this year to obtain cross-border acceptance and stock offerings.
According to the report, there are approximately 80,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the country, with forty-three thousand units operating in licensed industrial settlements and seventy-five percent of them operating.
* IRNA
