Baku, Azerbaijan, May 5
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
Iran’s cement exports to Iraq have been suspended, said Hamid Hosseini, secretary general of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce, Trend reports via Tejaratnews.
He said that Iran’s cement exports to Iraq have been suspended for more than a year.
He added that Iraq claimed that Iranian export companies were engaged in dumping. This is while Iranian export companies didn’t have facts to prove the opposite, he said.
“Thus, Iraq has first increased its fees for imported cement from Iran,” he noted. “Then imports of cement from Iran were periodically banned.”
He added that presently, Iraq’s imports in Iran’s construction materials sector are limited to clinker.
He noted that Iraq created conditions for production of 40 million tons of cement and sees no need in cement imports from Iran.
“Only imports of clinker from Iran are envisaged,” he said.