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Iran’s Apparel Market Worth $9 Billion, Smuggling Rife
EghtesadOnline: Estimates on the volume of smuggling in the Iranian market vary, but the Apparel Union says $1.5 billion worth of contraband clothing entered Iran during March 21-Oct. 22.
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22% Decline in Cigarette Smuggling
Eghtesadonline: Cigarette smuggling decreased by 22.1% during the 11 months to Feb. 18.
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Contraband Worth Over $320m Seized Last Year
EghtesadOnline: About 54 trillion rials ($329 million) worth of contraband goods were confiscated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration and other organizations fighting smuggling,…
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Decline in Cigarette Smuggling, Exports
EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade estimates that 9.07 billion cigarettes were smuggled into Iran during the 10 months to Jan. 20 to register a 45% decline compared…
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Cigarette Smuggling Declines
EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade estimates that 8.67 billion cigarettes were smuggled into Iran during the nine months to Dec. 21, 2019, indicating a 43.5% decline…
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Chinese Fishing Trawler Seized in Southeast Waters
EghtesadOnline: A Chinese fishing trawler smuggling 50 tons of lanternfish (or myctophids) worth 20 billion rials ($148,698) was seized in the southeastern port of Jask, Hormozgan Province, on…
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18% Decline in Apparel Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: About $1.8 billion worth of apparel were smuggled into Iran during the last fiscal year (March 2018-19) to register an 18.2% decline compared to the previous year's $2.2 billion,…
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Cigarette Smuggling Down 43%
EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade estimates that 8.16 billion cigarettes were smuggled into Iran during the eight months ending Nov. 21, indicating a 43% decline compared…
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Fuel Smuggling in Iran: A Strange Narrative
EghtesadOnline: The Tehran government’s protestations about fuel smuggling from the eastern and southern borders have become a permanent feature. So has the inability and unwillingness of those…
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Iran: Gasoline Rationing Did Not Eliminate Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: Rationing gasoline and raising pump prices by 200% that started on Nov. 15 will have no substantial effect on curbing fuel smuggling, says a deputy chief of the Goods and Foreign…
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Iran: Cigarette Smuggling Halved
EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade estimates that 6.9 billion cigarettes were smuggled into Iran during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22),…
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Iran: Outbound Medicinal Smuggling Raising Concerns, Debates
EghtesadOnline :Outbound smuggling of pharmaceuticals to neighboring countries has provoked ongoing debates over the past few months.
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Iran: Dual Pricing Can Help Boost Export, Combat Fuel Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: Reviving the gasoline rationing system with two rates can help curtail rampant smuggling and help boost exports, a board member of the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products…
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Case Against Higher Fuel Prices in Iran
EghtesadOnline: Although most energy officials, namely Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, say that raising gasoline prices would be the last resort to fight rampant smuggling and curtail rising…
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Iran: Contraband Mobile Phones Create Turmoil in Market
EghtesadOnline: Following the launch of the Mobile Registry Scheme in December 2017, its legal loopholes have allowed opportunists to continue smuggling mobile phones into Iran.
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Economic Security Police Launch Anti-Smuggling Drive
EghtesadOnline: The Economic Security Police Department of the Islamic Republic of Iran Law Enforcement Force started anti-smuggling operations at nine sea border crossings, one air border and…
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Cigarette Output Up, Smuggling Down
EghtesadOnline: A total of 12.7 billion cigarettes were produced in Iran during the first quarter of the current fiscal year (started March 21), registering a 33.7% increase compared with the…
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Upheaval in Home Appliances Market Gives Rise to Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: A total of $215 million worth of home appliances were imported into Iran during the last fiscal year (March 2018-19), down from $1.28 billion in the previous year, indicating…
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Iran, Pakistan Keen on Promoting Trade Ties
EghtesadOnline: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday stressed the need for Pakistan and Iran to take concrete measures against smuggling and ensure more business opportunities for the…
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Police Must Stem Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said one of the main obstacles in the way of boosting domestic production is smuggling, calling on police forces to…
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Call for Preventing Outbound Livestock Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: In a letter to the industries, mining and trade organizations of the provinces of West Azarbaijan, Kurdestan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Khuzestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Sistan-Baluchestan…
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Subsidized Imports Spur Smuggling of Essential Goods From Iran
EghtesadOnline: S ugar cubes, tomato paste, rice, fish, eggs and many other products categorized by the government as “essential goods”, importers of which get subsidized foreign currency, are…
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IRICA: Gold, Forex Imports Not Smuggling
EghtesadOnline: The import of foreign currency does not amount to smuggling and their import, as well as those of gold, is permitted without restriction, a directive issued to all customs offices…
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SCI, HQ to Combat Smuggling Sign MoU
EghtesadOnline: A memorandum of understanding was sighed between the Statistical Center of Iran and the Headquarters to Combat Smuggling of Goods and Foreign Exchange on Tuesday. The MoU was…
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Anti-Smuggling Drive to Promote Trade
EghtesadOnline: Trade between Oman and Iran dates back millennia, according to Marc Valeri, a political scientist and expert on Persian Gulf countries.
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Rouhani urges fight against smuggling of foreign commodities
EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday urged fighting smuggling of foreign commodities to Iran.