Between five and seven thousand metric tons of olive oil is smuggled into the country annually, Mehr news agency quoted Nader Jalallat, a member of Iranian Olive Council as saying on Sunday.
Domestic Economy
Georgia has expressed willingness to launch a “joint economic committee” with Iran, according to Ali Mohammadi, the Iranian consul general in Georgia’s seaside city of Batumi. “The Georgians seek…
Foreign investment in the Arvand Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) located in the western Khuzestan Province reached $108 million in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), which indicates a 14…
Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani on Monday urged Iranian private sector to invest in Afghanistan, in a meeting with the chairman of Iran's chamber of commerce, industry, mine and…
Officials are drawing up a successor to the seven-year-old Mehr social housing project, which has been blamed for everything from corruption and extended construction delays to its role in…
Recycling goes far beyond separating your wet and dry waste —which the city’s municipal authorities have lately been propagating intensively. Scrap recycling industry is a sophisticated, capital-…
More than $6 billion worth of commodities were traded via border areas of the northwestern Kurdistan Province over the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), which indicates a 52 percent…
Close to 100 metric tons of tragacanth gum, valued at $6 million, was exported from Isfahan Province to European and Asian countries during the past Iranian year (ended March 20),…
Iran imported $875 million worth of different commodities from Turkey during the last quarter of the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), according to head of Iran-Turkey Joint Chamber of…
Indian firms are vying to secure a position in the Iranian market as nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 are reaching a tipping point, which is expected to see economic sanctions against the…
Iran is one of the leading producers and exporters of dried fruits and nuts. According to data from the agricultural ministry, the country exported 180,262 metric tons of pistachio, 113,378 tons…
Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Abbas-Ahmad Akhundi on Saturday announced plans to implement the Automated Train Control (ATC) system for the entire rail network during the current…
President Hassan Rouhani will sign a bill in the coming days which will allow the establishment of a new free trade zone in the northwestern Ardebil Province, the governor-general of Ardebil…
More than 25,800 metric tons of commodities, valued at $19.6 billion were exported through Bushehr over the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), which makes the southern province the…
The customs tariff on rice imports has increased to 40 percent in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21), Abdolmahdi Bakhshandeh, deputy head of planning and economics at the…
As Iran and the so-called P5+1 group strive to reach a comprehensive agreement over Iran’s nuclear energy program, which if finalized is expected to boost the level of international trade and…
The parliament research center has started reviewing the latest data on the Economic Complexity Index (ECI), according to Mehr news agency.
Iran’s commercial attaché in Baghdad, Ebrahim Mohammad-Rezazadeh on Saturday urged Iranian merchants and traders to make use of the unique opportunity offered by the Iraqi market for the export of…
The ministry of cooperatives, labor and social welfare has begun preliminary studies to identify high-income Iranian households that should be excluded from the cash subsidy list, presidential…
The Producer Price Index (PPI) increased by 14.8 percent by the end of Esfand (12th month in the Persian calendar ending on March 20) compared to the same month last year, according to the latest…
Suitcase trade between Iran and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) during the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20) stood at $82.81 million, indicating a 18.38% decline…
The first session of Iran-France Joint Agricultural Committee is scheduled to be held late May, according to director of international affairs at Iran’s agriculture ministry, Houman Fathi.
Opuntia ficus-indica is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant important in agricultural economies throughout arid and semi-arid parts of the…
Noting that a number of foreign aircraft manufacturing companies have visited Iran over the past one year in a bid to assess the capacities in aviation industry, deputy minister of roads…
Head of Iran’s Trade Development Organization (TPO) Valliollah Afkhamirad, announced on Friday that Iran and Venezuela have sealed a deal on barter trade, inviting the Iranian food and medical…
