TEHRAN, Iran, Oct.22
Trend:
Iranian government to offer new customs incentives and advances for exporters to accelerate the trade said the head of Iran Customs Administration.
"Some of the new incentives would include accepting bank guarantees for imported basic material that is used in export goods, solving price differentials of oil products export," said Mehdi Mirashrafi, Trend reports citing Mehr News Agency.
"The customs formalities for exporters and evaluation of goods are being done for 24 hours a day that would reduce the costs and duration of unloading cargo," he said.
According to him, it is expected that related organizations could cooperate to offer better incentives to exporters that are mostly producers and would create jobs.
"Exporters that are following their commitment to return foreign currency revenues would be encouraged by incentives including pass through green customs route, drawback right for goods that produced with imported basic material," Mirashrafi noted.
Mirashrafi also said that those exporters that have not followed their commitment or have suspicious commerce cards would be identified by Iran Customs Administration in a list that would be offered to the Ministry of Industries, Mine, and Trade to confront them.
"Iran's Customs Administration has made the necessary negotiations to create joint border gates with Turkey and Afghanistan that would accelerate trade and create collective control in the border. The launch of the KATI corridor and Iran- Afghanistan - Uzbekistan transit corridor would create diversity and can improve export and transit," he said.
He also noted that expanding the TIR Convention toward East and South East Asia is on the agenda. Iran can have an important role in the expansion of the international convention and membership in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asian countries could accelerate the transportation and export of Iranian goods to South East Asia and Central Asia.