There has never been reliable data on the amount of fuel smuggled out of Iran to neighboring countries during the past few decades, but estimates put the number in the region of 10 million…
Smuggling in Iran
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A man has been arrested for smuggling $38,000 from Afghanistan to Iran, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. The cash was being carried to the neighboring country in a cement truck, said Jelani…
The Central Bank of Afghanistan raised concerns about the increasing smuggling of US dollars to neighboring countries, especially Iran, from Afghanistan and warned that this could further impact…
Iran’s intelligence forces disbanded a criminal ring on Thursday involved in foreign currency and gold smuggling. Coordinated security operations across the northwestern province of West…
Thirty-four containers of contraband fuel were confiscated in the southern Hormozgan Province’s Shahid Rajaee Port last week, the director general of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization…
Customs officials at Khorasan Razavi Province’s Sarakhs, the northeastern city along the Iran-Turkmenistan border, have seized 2,990 kilograms of copper ingots concealed in two trucks carrying a…
Cigarette imports fell to zero over the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21) compared with the import of 503 million cigarettes year-on-year, Ali Asghar Ramzi, the head…
Some 75% of the Iranian chewing gum market is dominated by foreign brands, most of which have been smuggled into the country while only 25% of the market is supplied by domestic brands, the…
Ninety percent of Iran's imports and transit will be controlled by advanced inspection technology by the Iranian yearend (March 20, 2019), the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs…
Iranian Tobacco Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pishgaman Pakhsh Arman Gostar Company as the representative of Philip Morris International to import and jointly produce…
Some 100 trillion rials (over $2.38 billion) worth of confiscated contraband are being kept in warehouses, the fate of which has not been decided, the head of Majlis Industries and Mining…
Iran’s official apparel imports in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18) stood at around $59 million, while statistics from the International Trade Center suggests apparel entering the country…
More than 36.21 trillion rials ($810.38 million) worth of contraband goods were confiscated in Iran during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (March 21, 2017-Jan. 20), registering a…
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which has been assigned the task of tackling commodity smuggling in the Persian Gulf, will support the administration in the broader war on smuggling, the…
Afghan police of counter-narcotic drug department succeeded in preventing the smuggling of 27 kg of the narcotic drug heroin to Iran in Herat Province.
Contraband accounts for 63% of all cosmetics in the Iranian market, an official with the Headquarters to Combat Smuggling of Goods and Foreign Exchange said.
“An estimated $1.5 billion…
Incoming passengers are not allowed to bring more than one cellphone and will have to pay 18% of the value of the phone as tax, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration announced over…
The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration incurred losses worth $625 million in the last Iranian year (March 2016-17) over the smuggling of cellphones into the county, the director…
The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration is ranked first in combating illicit drugs and second in fighting smuggling in World Customs Organization's latest report.
With the aim of addressing the root causes of the rampant smuggling of apparel into Iran, a forum was held at Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture on Saturday this week…
The dominance of foreign brands in Iran’s apparel market, mostly through smuggling, has undermined domestic production over the years.
In the hope of boosting domestic production and…
Fruit smuggling has declined by 90% since the fiscal 2013-14 when Hassan Rouhani first took office as Iran’s president, according to the managing director of Iran’s Confiscated Assets…
The first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 2) saw cigarette production rise by 60%, imports fall by 75% and smuggling decline by 48% compared to last year’s corresponding period…
The growing consumption of cosmetics and personal care products has turned the beauty sector into one of the most lucrative and exciting industries in the world.
The promotion of domestic apparel is tied with preparing the cultural ground among consumers. In addition, offering good clothing quality and variety is indispensable to build trust.
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