Nearly 120,000 tons of pistachio, worth above $1.2 billion, have been exported during the first ten months of the current year (ending March 20), the head of Iran-China joint chamber of commerce,…
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An official at the Center of Tobacco Planning and Supervision, Soheila Akbarabadi said on Wednesday her department seized a total of 289 million smuggled cigarettes in the first nine…
Close to 1,200 kilograms of farmed caviar was exported in this Iranian calendar year (ending March 20), ISNA quoted deputy head of Iran’s Fisheries Organization, Hossein Abdolhai as saying on…
Iran ranked 130 among the 189 countries surveyed in the latest World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ report, indicating a two-notch uptick in Iran’s regulatory improvement from last year.
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First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri says increasing non-oil exports is high on the agenda of the government, IRNA reported on Tuesday. Speaking in the southern island of Qeshm, he added that…
The tariffs on fish products exported to Turkey have been reduced from 16 to 5 percent, following a preferential trade agreement between the two countries late last year, ISNA reported Monday.…
No permit has been issued for importing fruit, specifically citrus fruit, via the borders, minister of Agricultural Jihad Mahmoud Hojjati wrote in a letter to governors of border regions, as IRNA…
Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Mohammad Khaza’ee, recently spoke of drafting a special plan aimed at deregulating investment and adding more transparency to the administrative…
Through collective and united collaboration between private and public sectors, the D-8 member countries can increase their foreign trade volume to $500 billion by 2018, said the secretary general…
President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts to repair ties with the West reached a new level this week as Iran is concurrently holding trade negotiations with two European nations, Spain and Portugal.
Unemployment among women is twice the rate for men, Abol-Hassan Firoozababdi, the deputy minister of labor and social affairs said yesterday, Mehr news agency reported. The official underlined…
Algeria and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday to give fresh impetus to bilateral cooperation in the public works.
The fourth D-8 ministerial meeting began in Tehran yesterday with the aim of consolidating and strengthening cooperation in terms of industry and small & medium enterprises (SMEs) among the…
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month ending Jan. 20 hit its lowest level in 42 months, Alireza Moghtadaiee, the head of economic statistics office of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI…
Bilateral trade with Iraq has decreased by nearly 8% this year compared with last year, Jahanbakhsh Sanjabi Shirazi, the secretary general of Iran-Iraq joint chamber of commerce said on Monday,…
A business delegation from Singapore is due to pay a visit to Iran in the coming week to scope out trade opportunities in Iran, IRNA reported on Monday.
Women’s participation in the economy is one fifth of men’s, Abol-Hassan Firoozababdi, the deputy minister of labor and social affairs said in a conference on Monday. As IRNA quoted the official,…
Eighty-five percent of the cell-phones in the domestic market are smuggled into the country, Abdolmajid Ejtehadi, head of the Headquarters for Combating Smuggling of Goods and Foreign Exchange…
Tehran and Ankara are working on a plan to use their national currencies in their trade exchanges, Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Alireza Bigdeli said on Sunday.
Thirty percent of machine-made carpets are exported to countries like China, Canada, and Afghanistan, Mohammad Hadi Kamalian, the head of carpet exporters union said in a news conference on Monday…
"The (western) sanctions against Iran are expected to be lifted in the near future," as anticipated by Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Ali Tayebnia on Monday, who added, "Iran can…
The First International Coffee and Tea Exhibition will be launched in Kish International Exhibition Center on January 30, Ariya Hamidi, the exhibition organizer told IRNA on Sunday. Hamidi…
Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, Hamid Kalantari, said on Sunday that the government is to allocate 5,500 billion rials ($159 million) in the next year budget to…
The first International Brand Strategy Conference began yesterday at Tehran Summit Convention Center. As many as 193 private and governmental institutions are participating in the two-day event,…
First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri will inaugurate the 3rd development phase of Shahid Raja'ee Port today, the Port and Marine Administration of Iran reported on Sunday.
