Secretary of the Supreme Council of Free Trade-Industrial and Special Economic Zones criticized recent moves in Majlis for levying tax in free zones and said the amount of investment flight from free zones to Turkey has been considerable in recent years and today the country sees the capital flight for investment to the UAE.

Iranian banking system has paid 22.964 quadrillion rials (over $86.1 billion) of facilities to domestic economic sectors in the first 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2021-January 20, 2022), registering a 59.4-percent rise from the same period in the previous year, Mehr News Agency reported.

A member of the board of directors of Iran’s National Saffron Council says according to the statistics released by Iran’s Customs Administration, Iran’s exports declined around 63% last month comparing to the same period last year and all should work to diagnose the reason and to find solution for it.

Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini during a joint online meeting with the Head of Iran’s Ports and Marine Organization (PMO) Mr. Ali Akbar Safaee said Pakistanis are eager to broaden all-out cooperation with Iran in the field of port and marine transportation especially in launching joint shipping line with Iran.

Head of Iran-UAE Joint Chamber of Commerce Erfan Shakeri says Iran and the UAE are working to prepare a ten-year outlook document for their trade ties which is in the early stage.

Iran and Oman signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for expanding economic cooperation in a variety of areas at the end of the two countries’ 19th Joint Economic Committee meeting.

– A webinar on reviewing the opportunities for economic cooperation between Iran and Luxemburg was held in order to make the economic activists get familiar with the economic capacities of the two countries and it was decided some specialized workshops to be held for promoting trade between the two countries.

Concurrent with the festivities marking the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the inaugural ceremony of 3 aluminum fishing pier stations were held in the fishing Dayyer Port in Bushehr Province in the presence of officials of the province and manufacturers of the piers.

Caretaker of the Technical and Insurance Operation of Department of Steel Pension Fund delved into details of recent actions of the fund for reforming and equalizing pensions of steel industry retirees.

New Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus Mr. Dmitry Koltsov in meeting with Head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Mine (TCCIM) Mr. Masoud Khansari explored ways for flourishing the trade between Belarus and Iran and called for removal of the obstacles.