Iran: Export duties on dates were removed; Date Association announced its readiness to regulate the domestic market

Published 2024년 3월 6일

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Iran's National Date Association is considering implementing export duties on dates, potentially discouraging exporters and impacting export markets. The rural cooperative organization plans to increase these duties from zero to 50% starting next week until the end of June next year. This has raised concerns among market activists, exporters, and producers. The Ministry of Economy's Business Improvement Center has urged for advance notice of such changes. However, the rural cooperative organization insists that these duties will not be cancelled until unions and exporters commit to supplying the domestic market.

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According to ISNA, in the middle of February, the head of Iran's National Date Association, in a conversation with ISNA, announced the possibility of determining export duties for dates and announced that the determination of these duties will make exporters unwilling to export, and as a result, by reducing the desire to export, Those export markets will be damaged and dates from other countries will replace Iranian dates in the target markets. These statements were made at the end of February, the head of the rural cooperative organization announced that in order to regulate the date market, in addition to storage, with the decision of the Ministry of Jihad and Agriculture, additional date export duties will be increased from zero to 50%, and the new tariff will begin next week. And it continues until the end of June next year. The announcement of this news brought the reaction of many market activists and relevant officials. Some exporters and producers expressed concern in this ...

Source: Isna