According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, one of the problems that make the conditions for a more colorful presence of machine-building companies in the country's industries and move the country towards the assembly industry, is the existence of exemptions for the import of these machines. In addition, the lack of a transparent mechanism has led to the annual allocation of 10% of the country's total imports of these items. The growth of the machine-building industry as a productive industry can not only alleviate some of the unemployment problem, but can also increase the country's resilience to sanctions.

According to the machine industry, a solution to the problem of unemployment

One of the topics that all governments have discussed and insisted on before and after coming to power has been the issue of unemployment and employment, especially for university graduates. This issue has been questioned and demanded by the people in recent years, especially due to the arrival of the young generation ready to work in the active population of the country. During these years, policies have been implemented in all governments to solve the problem of unemployment and create employment in accordance with the existing time and conditions; But what we see today is that, contrary to the costs allocated to this by all governments, the problem of unemployment has not only not been solved, but has unfortunately become one of the country's challenges.

According to the official statistics of the Statistics Center, in the summer of 1397, the share of the unemployed population aged 10 and over in higher education graduates of the total unemployed in the country was 39.5%, which compared to 1996 has increased by 0.1%. Although there are many statistics on the unemployment rate of educated people, on average, fields such as engineering, industry and processing, and computer science, with 21, 25, and 33% of the total unemployed with higher degrees, are among the groups with the highest unemployment rates.

One of the solutions that many experts emphasize is to pay attention to large industries that are known as productive industries and drivers of the economy and can activate many small and medium economic industries. In the meantime, the machine-building industry has a special place, which unfortunately has faced the ruthlessness of the officials during these years and has not been able to open its place in the country's economy as it should.

Supports that have created an unequal competitive environment for machine manufacturers

The import of industrial machinery, which is often referred to as capital goods by the authorities, has been known for many years as one of the acceptable justifications for increasing the value of imports into the country, instead of trying to reduce its import like other imported goods. As can be seen, it accounts for about $ 4 billion annually, or 10% of total imports into the country. One of the reasons for this high volume of imports of industrial machinery to the country is the existence of various protections such as customs protection of importers of these machines.

Because these goods increase the country's production, the authorities never look at it as a negative point in the country's economy, and by imposing exemptions on importers, they not only save about $ 240 million a year in the pockets of a small number of the country's resources. The importer goes, but by creating unequal conditions for the manufacturers of domestic machines, they make the difficult way to achieve self-sufficiency in such difficult conditions even more difficult. The arrival of machinery for factory production lines not only increases the country's dependence on countries with these technologies, which are mainly Western countries, but also has caused a large amount of the country's currency to be spent annually.

Imports subject to customs protection in millions of dollars during the years 1392-1392 (Preliminary performance report of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, 1392-1392)

Lack of transparency in determining the existence or absence of similar internal

Ali Jafari, an expert in the field of industry, referring to the referral of applicants for the use of this law to the provincial units of the Ministry of Silence, said: "In order to receive customs exemptions for machines that do not have domestic counterparts, the applicant must be a production unit. "To announce the required machinery for import."

He also referred to leaving the hands of experts free to determine the cases covered by this law, saying: "Given that the recognition of the construction of machinery inside is left to the provincial units, this procedure is done in a tasteful, non-transparent and unsupervised manner." "In other words, it is not clear what machines have been exempted, and domestic machine builders have no authority to inform or file a complaint."

Jafari added: "In order to determine the similarity of the interior of the machines, there was already a list called the list of 77 items, in which 77 machines without a domestic manufacturer were mentioned, and it was the basis for evaluating the lack of internal construction. This list was not published in any portal and since 2007 there has been no change in its non-construction. In 1398, according to the law of maximum use of the country's production and service capacity and protection of Iranian goods, a system of capabilities has been created to register domestic products, in which many companies have not been registered yet and the capabilities have not been accurately registered. "Assessing the ability to build inside is certainly a complex process that is beyond the expertise of the provincial unit of the Ministry of Silence."

Accordingly, it seems that granting financial exemptions to importers of industrial machinery without a specific mechanism in this field makes the road to the country's machine-building industry more difficult than anything else. Undoubtedly, despite the existence of powerful machine-building companies with high technical and engineering capacities, the authorities should think about eliminating these import exemptions and facilitating and equalizing the conditions for the domestic machine-building industry.