But recently, once again, the issue of establishing preferential trade and reducing trade tariffs between Iran and Afghanistan has been discussed, an approach that still has supporters and opponents.
Afghanistan has been an important and strategic regional market for Iran for many years.
Historically, these relations include various economic, political, cultural, ethnic and linguistic aspects, and in recent years the two countries have set more ambitious goals for the development of their trade and economic relations; The objectives that were discussed during the visits of the delegations of the two parties at the level of governments and the private sector.
Now, during the visit of the representative of the trade development organization to Afghanistan, the two sides discussed the possibility of establishing preferential trade for certain goods.
Details of the visit of Hamidreza Karblai Esmaili, the representative of the Trade Development Organization, the head of the Afghanistan country office of the Trade Development Organization, in a trip that aims to improve trade relations between Iran and Afghanistan in the fields of technical and engineering services, pharmaceutical and medical products, petrochemicals, food and also inspection infrastructure.He was present at customs and borders of the exit to Afghanistan, he met and discussed with the commercial, commercial, economic and medical officials of this country.
On this trip, the Head of Afghanistan Country Office with Qalandar Ebad, Acting Ministry of Public Health Mohammad Yunus Mohmand, First Deputy Chamber of Commerce and Investment, Maulvi Abdul Matin Saeed, Director General of Customs Afghans, Farooq Azizi, Deputy and Principal Advisor to the Acting Ministry of Commerce, Seddiqi Far Consul General J. UN. Iran in Herat, Haj Lala, Commissioner of Border Guards Islam Qala, Director General of Customs Dogharon, Members of Political and Economic Deputy of Taibad Governorate and Rajabi, Director General of Industry, Mining and of Commerce of Khorasan province Razavi, members of the board of directors of Iran Trade Center in Kabul met and discussed Among the achievements of this trip, we can mention the initial agreements in the field of completion of the engineering infrastructure and the start of negotiations in the field of preferential tariffs and customs infrastructure.
During this trip, the parties prepared a list of 10 positions for the implementation of the first phase of the preferential tariffs, which will be added to the number of these positions if approved by the parties.
In addition, with the agreement of the parties, it has been decided that the working hours of border customs (Milk - Mile 78 - Dogharon) will be modified according to the needs of these customs to facilitate the export and transit process, as long as we don't block the entry and exit of trucks.
According to the recent decision of the government and the emphasis placed by the President of the Republic on the border exchange of 400 dollars for border residents, it was decided to form a border working group to accelerate its implementation.
In addition, agreements have been reached regarding the formation of a common industrial zone at the zero point of the border with the creation of energy infrastructure by Iran and the investment of Afghan businessmen with the cooperation of the sector private and Iranian commercial and investment companies.
Afghanistan has also announced that it is ready to open a transit route from Pakistan to Khorasan-Razavi via the Taftan-Chaman-Islam Qala-Mashhad route, which will reduce this route from 1500 km to less than 1000 km.
The acceptance of elite Afghan students in various medical and non-medical fields in Iranian universities and bilateral cooperation regarding the specialized training of medical personnel by sending Iranian professors to Afghanistan were, among other things, that the parties declared themselves ready to implement.
Facilitate the process of medical tourism in view of the special conditions that have arisen in competing countries, propose the establishment of a specialized hospital in the border special economic zone of Dogharon, facilitate the granting of licenses for the export of medicines and medical equipment that may be permanently available on the consumer market in Afghanistan. Other issues were considered.
The trade trend of the two countries in the past 2 years, Afghanistan's imports in the past years were around 11 billion dollars, but During the two year But recently, once again, the issue of establishing preferential trade and reducing trade tariffs between Iran and Afghanistan has been discussed, an approach that still has supporters and opponents.