Domestic Economy

Iran’s unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 and above, stood at 10.6% in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019), indicating a 1.2%…

Tehran Province exported 546,000 tons of goods worth $587 million during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22, 2019), the deputy head of Tehran Industries, Mining and…

Iran’s southern Bushehr Province has exported 14,000 tons of farmed shrimp worth $70 million since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019), according to Qasem Qaedi, an…

The government needs to shift its focus from collecting tax from registered private-run businesses to tax evading companies.  This was stated by Mehrad Ebad, a member of Tehran Chamber of…

The Iranian National Tax Administration has announced duties and tax rates applicable to imported and locally-produced cigarettes in the current Iranian year (March 2019-20).  

Iran's overall non-oil foreign trade (excluding crude oil, mazut, kerosene and exports via suitcase trade) during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21) stood at $…

The Majlis Joint Commission has decided that government employees who earn less than 360 million rials ($2,769) per year will be exempted from paying income tax as of the next Iranian year (…

Iran’s total exports of iron ore witnessed a noticeable downturn since the seventh Iranian month (Sept. 23-Oct. 22), at the beginning of which the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade…

The government plans to issue what it calls "economic identification cards" for Iranian households to facilitate the execution of its economic projects, says Ahmad Meydari, deputy minister of…

Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO) exported more than 877,000 tons of steel products during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21) to register a 30% rise compared with…

Iran’s trade with Turkey totaled $5.28 billion from January to November 2019 to register a decrease of 39.68% compared with the corresponding 11-month period of 2018, data released by Turkish…

More than 105 million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded at Iran’s 21 commercial ports during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21) to register a 1.1%…

A total of 4.07 million tons of fruits and vegetables worth $1.59 billion were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2018-19) to register a 9% and 35% rise in weight and value…

Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Reza Rahmani has appointed Farahnaz Rafe as the new chairwoman of Iran National Carpet Center. She replaces Fereshteh Dastpak who has been the head of…

A total of $7.5 million worth of pharmaceuticals were exported from Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), a member of the Iranian Pharmaceutical Industries…

Iran exported $31.9 billion worth of goods during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21), according to chairman of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, Hamid…

President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Gholamreza Shafei is to head a business delegation from its Isfahan chapter to Portugal. The visit will be held on…

A total of 4,000 tons of tea have been exported from Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, according to Habibollah Jahansaz, the head of Iran Tea Organization.…

The Statistical Center of Iran has released a new report on food price changes in the Iranian month ending Dec. 21. According to the report, the biggest month-on-month price rise was recorded…

Pars Chrome Khazar Factory, located in Miandorud County of Mazandaran Province, has come on stream after being closed for about four years, the managing director and investor of the factory told…

A total of 456 locomotives and passenger, cargo and self-propellant wagons have been added to Iran's rail fleet since the beginning of the current Iranian year on March 21, registering a 95%…

A total of 21,767 tons of shrimps have been produced in Bushehr Province’s aquatic farms since the beginning of the current Iranian year (started March 21), which shows a 5.36% decrease compared…

Semnan’s mines extract 10 million tons of gypsum every year, says the head of Industries, Mining and Trade Organization of the province. According to Behrouz Asvadi, 84 gypsum mines are…

Iran has exported $180 million worth of commodities to Eurasian Economic Union member states under preferential tariffs since Oct. 27, when a trade agreement between the two sides came into…

A total of 100,000 tons of kiwis have been exported from Iran’s northern Mazandaran Province since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), registering a twofold increase compared…