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Senior Iranian official disclose garment smuggling details

Business Materials 19 April 2018 14:56 (UTC +04:00)
Trade Promotion Organization of Iran has criticized the huge amount of smuggled garments into the country.
Senior Iranian official disclose garment smuggling details

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 19

By Khalid Kazimov – Trend:

Trade Promotion Organization of Iran has criticized the huge amount of smuggled garments into the country.

Mojtaba Khosrotaj, the head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, has said that worth of $1 billion of clothing items was smuggled into the country over the last fiscal year which ended on March 21, Fars news agency reported.

He further added that the value of the legally imported garment into the country over the last year stood at $59 million.

Mehdi Mahmoudi, an official with the association of clothing producers, earlier suggested that the country’s garment market values at $10 billion.

Iranian MP Naser Largani in a televised interview in March estimated that worth of $20 billion of goods is smuggled into the country per year.

However, the Iranian organization for combating smuggling of goods says the value of the smuggled goods into the country stands at $12.5 billion.

According to the latest report by the Iranian Customs Administration, the country imported 38.736 million tons of goods $54.302 billion worth of commodities during the last fiscal year.

In the meantime, the value of Iran’s non-oil exports witnessed a 6.6-percent growth hitting $46.93 billion.

Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri earlier in April pledged to protect the economic stability of the country and said one of the ways to support Iranian goods is to combat smuggling.

He added that the government has drawn up a list of major contraband goods and commodities which were smuggled into the country last year to concentrate on fighting smuggling.

In his speech on the occasion of the turn of the Iranian calendar year on March 20, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on the nation to dedicate efforts to promote domestic production.

Ayatollah Khamenei described domestic production as "the pivotal" issue this year, which he said is the key to resolving many of the country’s economic and social woes.

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