Car Filter Import Ban Lifted 

The two-year ban on importing car filters has been lifted, secretary of Iran’s Filter Manufacturers and Exporters Association announced.
Ali Soleimani also told Donyaye Khodro that filters can be imported on condition that they are bought directly from the manufacturing countries and approved by the Iranian filter association. 
“Filters should be bought from countries with high technologies in the field, such as Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea,” he added.
Referring to the ban on filter import due to the production of similar products in Iran, he said when car filters’ import was not restricted, some profiteers imported fake products from Asian countries in the name of European and South Korean products and sold them as genuine components.
As this harmed domestic industries, filter imports were banned and traders were only allowed to import products that did not have a domestic counterpart.