The organization for supporting consumers and producers has recently written a letter to the Trade Promotion organization of Iran, and restricted or banned exports of 50 items of goods. Accordingly, exports of the following goods have been restricted or banned:

1- Wheat

2- Floor

3- Sugar

4- Sugar cube

5- Vegetable oil

6- Live sheep

7- Red meat

8- Copper cathode

9- Copper scraps

10- Rawhide

11- Vehicle tire

12- Polymer products

13- Imported industrial and road building machinery

14- Car parts

15- Paper

16- Feed corn

17- Soy meal

18- Soy bean

19- Aluminum ingot

20- Steel ingot

21- Iron scrap

22- Concrete waste

23- Paper waste

24- Molybdenum sulfur

25- Barley

26- Types of wood

27- Imported tea

28- Wet blue (cow and sheep)

29- Imported rice

30- Types of fodder

31- Types of powdered milk

32- Types of animal butter

33- Types of steel products

34- Carbon black

35- Sodium sulfate

36- Sodium carbonate

37- Caustic soda

38- Sulfuric acid

39- LAB

40- Benzene

41- Baking soda

42- Styrene monomer

43- Polyethylene pe

44- Poly propylene pp

45- Polyethylene terephthalate pet

46- Polyvinyl chloride pvc

47- Polystyrene ps

48- Dioctyl phthalate dop

49- Acrilonitrilo butadieno estireno abs

50- Melamine crystal

Exports of all clinical and medical treatment products, which had been imported using official rate dollar are banned in this stage and a list of goods which have been domestically manufactured using raw material imported using official rate dollar will be sent again after being announced by the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education.

According to the Trade Promotion Organization’s managing director, the ban on exports of the mentioned goods was aimed to support the rights of consumers.

Hamid Safdel said that the cabinet approved a plan on September 29, with the goal of banning exports of over 50 items of goods, aiming to support domestic producers and procuring raw materials for downstream industrial units. According to the approval, it was decided to restrict exports of the mentioned goods till the time the confidence is gained for meeting demands of domestic producers for raw materials and secure rights of consumers, as well.

Since petrochemical units have announced readiness to provide raw materials for downstream industrial units so we are currently reviewing the restriction to remove a number of the goods from the proposed list, he said.