No more easy access for cheap Chinese garments into Iranian markets
24 Sep '05
2 min read
Cheap Chinese imports, particularly textiles, garments, tea, cigarettes, and home appliances will face tough times landing in Iran. About a million dollars worth contraband goods were seized last month, according to Iranian Customs Department. In a major decision, Massoud Karbassian, head of Iranian Customs said the administration in cooperation with Textile Factories Syndicate, will try to prevent the import of low-quality textiles.
He informed that customs offices will be established in piers that are considered as official entry and exit points. A decline in smuggling of tea, cigarettes and home appliances has been recorded, while satellite receivers, alcoholic drinks and guns were brought illegally in large quantities into the country, he added.
On the other hand, Iran-China Chamber of Commerce has said that preventing Chinese products was not proper and the officials of the two countries need to sit and work out ways to allow quality products to enter Iran.
Drawing comparisons, China had invested $50 billion in its textile industries in 2003, against paltry $250 million by Iranian companies, so far.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was the conduit point for smuggling substandard Chinese goods into Iran, sources said.
Even the country's Standard and Industrial Research Institute had earlier announced that UAE topped with highest share of export of cheap and poor quality Chinese products to Iran last month, when authorities prevented the entry of more than a mln dollar worth of substandard goods into the country.
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