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Member of the Board of Directors of Mahallah County Stoneblocks Guild: My vision for the future is bright. The sanctions will be lifted and the stone market will flourish as a result of the housing market.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, a member of the board of directors of the local Association of Stone Makers described the problems of the stone export sector and said: "The main problem of our export right now is the money transfer issue, which we have had difficulty transferring because of sanctions." It is up to the government and the State Department and the banking system to address this problem.
He added: Another obstacle to export is the issue of trade and export security. Exporters have lost their business security because of major political issues. The economic agents of the Iranian embassies must be activated.
Mustafa Rezai said the use of all export capacities is essential for the stone export sector and said: The raw and processed stone market is a large market and can cover the whole world.
He added: "Certainly, the sale of processed stone brings more value to the country, but some of the raw stones in our country have no market. What is the problem if these stones are converted into dollars and their dollars returned to the country?
A senior member of the board of directors of the Sangraban Trade Union said the lack of suitable infrastructure was one of the barriers to export and said: "In the extractive sector we are not far from the world, but in the process of processing we are far from the world." Our machinery needs to be updated. Turkey was a country that started producing its own machinery and now has the potential to compete with Italian machinery.
"Our production line needs to be mechanized," he said. In Mahallat we have three hundred stone factories with only thirty factories capable of producing enough. The government must help the factory owners in this state of recession. In this state of recession, the factories are unable to modernize their machinery, and they are left to their daily cost.
Mustafa Rezai assessed the country's banking system in contradiction with the policy of protecting producers and said: "Our next problem is the problem with the banking system. When you open an LCI, it takes six months for your money to come into your account."
He added that the Islamic Republic would reduce thirty percent of its money when it could exchange money to cash it. What is the benefit to the exporter after deducting another 30%? The bank is only looking for its own income.
A senior member of the board of directors of the Mahalat Sangharpan Trade Union criticized the government's policy on VAT, saying that the problem of VAT has now become a problem for manufacturers. The added value of breaking the back of a rock. Isfahan is completely closed, Tehran's production units are half-closed, and Mahallat city is virtually closed. Thirty-five percent of the city's factories are offshore, and the rest work only use about 30 percent of their production capacity. More than fifty percent of Karnataka city neighborhoods are closed.
"I personally shut down the plant from August 1 because there was no room for more production and no stone was sold," he added. The average factory cost for the month was four hundred million tomans a month.
Mustafa Rezai clarified the prospects for the post-sanctions stone industry and said: "If the export platform is ready, after the sanctions are lifted, there is a possibility that there will be an opening in the market, but practical action will not happen by the end of 2015." The Economics of a Living Being It doesn't happen to me and Mr. Minister and the President that there should be open doors and the possibility of export and surplus money to move the economy.
"My vision for the future is clear," he added. Sanctions will be lifted from 2016 and the stone market will flourish as a result of the housing market. The government has restrained the housing market to contain inflation. The government does not abandon the housing market so that housing prices rise sharply to keep the market out of recession, but once the exports are made and money is injected into the market, these existing housing will be traded, and we will see its impact on the stone market.
