According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Hossein Modarres Street at a special follow-up meeting on export issues in the country attended by the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the head of Iran's Trade Development Organization, the Deputy Director of Tax Affairs, the Deputy Director of Customs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Director General. The Central Bank's Export Bureau and the heads of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce Export and Business Facilitation Committees and the Iranian Chamber of Commerce Export Development Commission held that, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 80% of the missions of embassies across the country are economic. And it's been trying to do this I think the ambassadors of Iran to take effective measures, in particular the economic development of the country's exports, is highlighted.

The Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce added: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly emphasizes that the ambassadors of the Islamic Republic of Iran make economic issues their first priority and the path of entry of Iranian goods into export target markets, especially the markets of countries where State Department representatives are there to open it.

Exporters, despite severe sanctions, were able to export thirty-five and a half billion dollars, which is a very rare and important event in the face of difficult sanctions where the country's banking, insurance and transportation systems are boycotted, he said. It counts.

According to the official statistics of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs, the export amount of the country amounted to 35.5 billion dollars and the imports amounted to 36.6 billion dollars. Overall, it accounts for $ 70 billion in trade, while Iran's export goods are exported to a hundred countries.

The school lecturer said that the country's record weight export has been broken by the Islamic Republic of Iran's customs statistics. He said that in the first ten months of this year, 155 million tonnes of goods were exported, while imports, The country was twenty-eight million tons, but it should be noted that despite the significant statistical difference between the tonnage of export and imported goods, but due to the significant difference in the average value of export and import goods, the export rate of the country with a multiple tonnage, is almost equivalent to the value of imports. Country.

He explained that the average value of export goods in the country is less than $ 400 and the value of imported goods is around one thousand and two hundred dollars per ton, and accordingly efforts should be made to provide higher value-added goods in world markets.

In another part of his speech, the lecturer emphasized the necessity of removing barriers to exporters: the exporters of the country should have the least problems in the path of their export, and with the set of measures, they could pave the way for export development; The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Commerce has tried to provide exporters with issues and problems that can be met in coordination with the Export Development Task Force, which meets regularly on a weekly basis every Wednesday morning. The meeting machines made quick decisions to remove these barriers Kurdish.

He added that the coordination of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Commerce with exporters along with the strong presence of representatives of the Central Bank, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs and the Organization for Taxation has made the export currency return routes less difficult than ever before. The coordination is backed by seventy percent of the currency exported to the country, indicating that exporters have been working closely with the central bank in returning the currency.

The lecturer urged the State Department to eliminate the problems of issuing visas to businessmen and merchants in some of Iran's export target countries, saying: "In this regard, we strongly need the cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to be able to track the interactions of other countries' traders with Iran." Iranian exporters and the presence of merchants and merchants in other countries in Iran.

He emphasized that the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an executive step in the direction of export development and exporters support in export target markets can create a space to issue guidelines to provide the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to other countries of the world. , A database of Iranian businessmen residing in that country, compiled imported goods from the country of residence, acceptance of business delegations, and the like, and can provide the basis for increasing the activity of Iranian businessmen in export target markets.

Modares said: Given that the process of deploying Iranian business consultants to embassies around the world is a complex and time-consuming task, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is being asked to meet with Iran's full-fledged business representatives, which will be represented by affiliates of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Mines. The business and the common chambers of commerce are designated and dispatched, making the most of the cooperation.

Also at the meeting, Gholamreza Ansari, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also announced the readiness to provide locations outside the embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the world for the establishment of full trade representatives of Iran. In the world, it is not possible for these representatives to be deployed in embassies, but this readiness is said to be in place outside of the embassies for the ultimate cooperation.

He added that the embassy of Iranian businessmen and businessmen accept the issues of the exporters with open arms: "Our proposal is that next year should be considered as" export boom "year, considering the need to develop the country's exports, so that one Stronger support for export protection. However, it is necessary to provide for the signing of preferential trade agreements and the next step of free trade with other countries in the world.

"We hope to be able to sign a preferential trade agreement with the member states of this important group at the D8 summit in late April next year," Ansari said.

Emphasizing that the performance of Iranian ambassadors should be evaluated in terms of factors related to the development of export of Iranian goods to countries around the world, Ansari added: "The performance of ambassadors in the country should be measured on the basis of the amount of assistance provided to export development of Iranian goods." E

Also at the meeting, representatives of the Tax Administration, the Customs Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Central Bank presented a report on the latest status of currency liabilities and VAT refunds on exports, and representatives of the private sector commented on the value added tax return. And offered a currency commitment.

* Ilna