Customs Clearance

EghtesadOnline: Customs clearance of imported essential goods via the "green channel" reached an all-time high in the month ending Dec. 21, says Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaqi, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.

EghtesadOnline: Procedures and formalities required for the customs clearance of imported essential goods, including rice, vegetable oil, tea and raw materials needed by factories, are now carried out in less than 24 hours at Iran’s biggest container port, Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Hormozgan Province.

EghtesadOnline: A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education to accelerate the process of customs clearance for health-related products.

EghtesadOnline: Rice shipments have until August 11 to undergo customs clearance procedures, provided they acquired warehouse receipts or declaration forms before the end of working hours on July 22, the director general of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration’s Imports and Free and Special Economic Zones Affairs Center said.

EghtesadOnline: Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Hormozgan Province carried out customs clearance of over 4 million tons of essential goods during the last Iranian year (March 2019-20).

EghtesadOnline: Thanks to the executive order of President Hassan Rouhani, judicial action has been initiated against the importer of a contaminated corn consignment after its customs clearance was halted.

EghtesadOnline: First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri has given a nod to a proposal by the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture to ease rules demanding the Certificate of Origin for imported goods before customs clearance.