Azerbaijan’s Disruption of Iran-Armenia Trade Under Fire

The government of Azerbaijan has imposed a $130 toll fee since about a week ago on Iranian trucks exporting goods to Armenia via the border region occupied by Azerbaijani forces, says Hervic Yarijanian, the head of Iran-Armenia Chamber of Commerce.
“Azerbaijan is trying to damage Tehran-Yerevan bilateral trade, which would also hit Iran’s trade with the Eurasian Economic Union,” he was quoted as saying by ILNA.
“Based on what is stipulated in Iran-EEU preferential trade agreement, Iran’s observer member period has come to an end and we now have to be on the way to becoming a permanent member. Here, the volume of economic interactions between Iran and EEU’s five member countries are of great significance. Yet, the Azerbaijani government’s new measure is blocking the easy flow of commodities between Iran and Armenia.”