Plans Underway to Trade Persian Handmade Carpets for Other Goods

Plans are underway to establish a barter system to trade Persian hand-woven carpets for other commodities, says Fereshteh Dastpak, the head of Iran National Carpet Center.
She noted that major buyers of Persian handmade carpets in China have expressed readiness to apply such a system to import Iranian carpets in exchange for subway wagons.
Sweden and Russia have also offered do trade Iranian carpets for a range of other commodities, Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture's news portal reported.