A member of the Board of Directors of the Joint Chamber of Commerce of Iran and Russia stated that free trade has not yet been completed and only preferential tariffs with 50% and 75% discounts have been applied and the lists have been exchanged for zero tariffs, and said: This agreement is expected to be signed in the next two months. It should be approved in the parliaments of all the Eurasian Economic Union and more than 88% of the items exchanged between Iran and Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union will enjoy zero tariffs.
According to ISNA, Kambiz Mirkarimi stated in a radio interview that the free trade agreements of the countries of the world with their neighbors facilitate exporters’ access to the market. The countries are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
He added: Free trade has not yet been completed and only preferential tariffs with 50% and 75% discounts have been applied and the lists have been exchanged for zero tariff. It is expected that this agreement will be approved in the parliaments of all the Eurasian Economic Union in the next two months, and more than 88% of the items exchanged between Iran and Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union will enjoy zero tariffs. This issue greatly increases the competitiveness of Iranian goods against Chinese and Indian competitors and other countries.
Mirkarimi stated that now the barriers to the business of companies have been removed and we must work in the field of knowledge and marketing. The iron of the former Soviet Union has crossed the border of Iran. Currently, the east of the Caspian Sea has serious bureaucracy within the scope of the five Central Asian republics, and the jump in exports and imports shows that no matter how much investment is made in the area of logistics infrastructure, it is still low. Of course, we still have the line of trucks and we asked the government to continue its support and facilities for this sector.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Joint Chamber of Commerce of Iran and Russia stated: Currently, there is a banking relationship between Iran and Russia, but part of the banking capacity between the two countries remains unused, which is due to the dual exchange rate in our country and Russia.
Mirkarimi also said about the variety of Iran’s export goods to Russia: food and dairy products, luxury goods such as machine-made carpets and pistachios, textile products and plastic and downstream petrochemical industries have found a good market in Russia, and gas turbines and catalysts are also in demand and only A basic marketing is necessary to develop export markets.
The member of the Board of Directors of the Joint Chamber of Commerce of Iran and Russia also considered the attraction of business tourists to be extremely effective in the economic prosperity of the country and said: Iran’s exports to Russia were 260 million dollars until 2017, but in 2018, exports to this country increased to over 400 million dollars. million dollars increased and now it has reached one billion dollars.
