A Policy Shift Against Production, in Favor of Consumption

To promote production, customs tariff on manufacturing machines should be lower than the import tariff on the final product, but ironically the Iranian Parliament has acted against this rationality, says Amir Nazemi, former deputy minister of ICT and the head of Iran IT Organization, in an article for the Persian daily Shargh. 
A translation of the text follows: 
The import of “cheese puffs” is a far cry from the import of “cheese puff production machines”, as the latter could lead to the production of cheese puffs with more or less the same technology as their foreign counterparts, as well as the generation of jobs, profits for the producer and future investment.