Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the economy and create job opportunities for a major part of the labor pool, said an expert in the labor market, Alireza Heidari,…
Domestic Economy
The establishment of a free trade zone in the border city of Mehran in Ilam province is expected to benefit the regional and national economy and boost the level of exports to neighboring Iraq, an…
A business delegation headed by First Vice President, Es'haq Jahangiri will leave Tehran for Baghdad on Monday to discuss further expansion of bilateral trade ties.
Iran accounts for barely 5% of Turkey’s annual $259 billion volume of imports, Abbas Khaleghitabar, a senior official at Iran’s ministry of industries, mine and trade, said on Saturday ahead of…
The value of trade with China has reached $52 billion so far this year (to end March 20), recording a 30% increase compared with last year, Iran’s ambassador to Beijing, Ali Asghar Khaji, said on…
More than 100 trillion rials ($3.6 billion at official exchange rate) is required to complete the Mehr housing project, deputy minister of roads and urban development Ahmad Asghari Mehrabadi told…
An exhibition of Iranian products will be held in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, from February 16 to 19, IRNA reported.
Domestically manufactured home appliances meet 75 percent of local needs, said Habibollah Ansari, secretary general of the Home Appliance Association, as reported by ISNA on Friday. The official…
Housing prices are not expected to increase in the coming Iranian calendar year (starting March 21), deputy minister of roads and urban development Hamed Mazaherian told ILNA on Friday. While the…
Almost a decade after the idea of preferential trade was first proposed, Iran penned its first preferential tariff agreement (PTA) with Turkey when the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip…
The private sector is gearing up to engage in the economy and trade with foreign countries following “a dignified nuclear agreement in which Iran’s national interests are observed and acknowledged…
Multinational companies from Europe are forging an alliance to overtake their US rivals in trade with Iran as the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the world’s six major powers could…
Iran’s current $2.5-billion share in the $10-billion Afghan market can be increased to $6 billion in the near future, Farhad Mojallali, an official in Trade Promotion Organization said, according…
Iran is the 10th biggest producer of chicken meat in the world, Homayoun Darabi, the head of chicken farmers union said in a news conference on Tuesday. With more than 2 million metric tons of…
The government has transferred all its authority in the tea sector including imports, exports, production, selling, and trade, to Iran Tea Organization, government spokesperson Mohammad Bagher…
Turkmen traders owe more than $10 million to 137 of their Iranian counterparts, Mohammad Samadi, an official in the ministry of industries, mine, and trade said in a news conference on Tuesday.…
The northeastern province of East Azarbaijan exported $200 million of agricultural products in the first 10 months in the current year (March 21-January 20), Karim Mehri, the head of the province’…
Iraq accounts for more than 70% of Iran’s exports of technical and engineering services, Mohamad-Reza Ansari, the head of Iranian Technical and Engineering Services Exports Association, said on…
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Martin Cerisola, Assistant Director for the Middle East and Central Asia Department, visited Tehran from January 24 to February 5.
President Hassan Rouhani took the opportunity of the 36th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution to declare that he has managed to live up to the promises he had made during his…
More than $5 billion has been invested in energy-intensive industries of the Persian Gulf Special Economic, Mining Industries and Metal Zone, said Masoud Hendian, the managing director of the zone…
The administration is planning to increase the role of railways in transportation of goods in line with its policy to expand trade, Mohammad Sa’idnejad, the deputy minister of roads and urban…
Iran’s economy continued to grow for the second season during the summer of 2014, based on latest reports released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). Ever since the start of stagflation period (…
Iran’s trade balance with Italy has turned positive with Iran notching up a surplus of $400 million in its bilateral trade with the European country, Chairman of Iran-Italy Joint Chamber of…
Tehran is ready to revive the Iran-Croatia Joint Economic Committee, as the committee “would further help expansion of bilateral trade,” First Vice President, Es’haq Jahangiri, said on Monday in…
