Increase the cost of transporting goods to Qatar by up to two hundred percent
Chairman of the Iran-Qatar Joint Chamber of Commerce: Transportation costs have risen by up to 200 percent in terms of traffic for some items.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Adnan Musapour said about the current situation of trade with Qatar: Qatar's trade balance with the Islamic Republic of Iran is three hundred and five million dollars positive balance in favor of Iran and also the amount of bilateral trade with Iran is three hundred and sixty five million. Dollars.
He announced Iran's exports to Qatar at $ 335 million, adding that fruits and vegetables, livestock and fish, carpets, cement, building materials, building stones, bitumen, beams and rebars, and food and sweets, pistachios. And legumes are among the items exported to the country.
Saying that Iran's imports from Qatar are $ 30 million, Musaipour said that the most important items imported to Iran include electrical appliances, audio and video equipment, tires and liquefied petroleum gas.
The head of the Iran-Qatar Joint Chamber of Commerce, referring to the commercial consequences of the outbreak of the coronavirus in the world, said: Has gone up.
He added: "On the other hand, the demands of Iranian companies on the part of Qatar have been delayed due to the severity of the corona outbreak, and the tourism and investment and luggage trade sector, which was carried out with the presence of individuals, has been completely stopped."
Musaipour assessed the situation of agricultural and food exports as good and said: "Since Qatar's economy is based on gas, it has not been affected as much as neighboring countries, which are oil-rich and oil-based."
According to him, Qatar Airways transfers medical equipment to many countries around the world.
Musapour reminded: Qatar's approach is towards e-commerce and has set incentives in this regard.
"Qatar exports natural gas, compressed gas (lLNG), gasoline, fuel oil, petrochemicals, chemical fertilizers, steel and liquid propane to the world," he said, referring to Qatar's most important exports.
* IRNA
