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Iran’s Export of Handicrafts Up 53%

mahla — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:37:30 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) The director general of the Handicrafts Marketing Affairs of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts stated that Iran exported about 16 tons of handicrafts, valued at $48.6 million, last year (ended March 20, 2024).

Farzad Owjani pointed out that the country exported about 26 tons of handicrafts, valued at $74.5 million, in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to June 22, 2024).

About $30 million, $7.3 million, $7.2 million of handicrafts were exported from Tehran, Khorasan Razavi and West Azarbaijan provinces in this period respectively, he maintained.

He also put the value of exports of precious metals at about $13 million in the first three months of the previous year (March 21 to June 22, 2023) and said it rose to about $18 million in the first quarter of this year.

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Persian handicrafts displayed at China festival

reporter 1222 — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:51:30 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran is taking part as a special guest at the 523 Culture Art Festival at 523 Cultural Industry Park in Hai’an in the east-central province of Jiangsu in China, presenting precious Persian handicrafts.

The Iranian handicrafts being showcased in China include minakari (vitreous enamel), khatamkari (Persian technique of marquetry), toreutics, handwoven carpets, kilim (a flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug) and termeh (a luxurious handmade Persian cloth), according to IRNA.

A video message of the Iranian Ambassador to China Mohammad Keshavarz-Zadeh was broadcast at the opening ceremony of the festival on Tuesday.

According to the Hai’an website, the 523 Culture Art Festival is expected to help domestic and foreign merchants, artists, and cultural and creative workers form cooperative relationships. It is also expected to provide a platform for cultural enterprises to hold art exhibitions, trade products, and exchange information.

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Hamedan handicrafts exports reach $35mn a year

reporter 1222 — Tue, 19 May 2020 12:32:42 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The exports of handicrafts from the western Iranian province of Hamedan amounted to 3.7 million tons worth $35 million during the last Iranian fiscal year (ended March 19), a senior official said.

Deputy Head of Hamedan cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism office, Hashem Mazaheri, said this week that traditional glassware, ceramics, wooden products, sculptures, and furniture were among the province’s exports last year.

He noted that Lalejin pottery had an 80% share in the province’s handicraft exports during the said period.

Lalejin, which was registered as the world pottery capital in 2016 by UNESCO-affiliated World Crafts Council, is the main center for the production of the earthenware and ceramics in the country.

Iran exported handicrafts worth $427 million during the 11 months to Feb. 19, of which official exports accounted for $237 million.

The figure shows a 13.3% increase in value and an 8% growth in weight compared with the same period of the year before.

However, the official exports fell drastically while suitcase exports came to a total halt in the 12th month of the last fiscal year (Feb. 20-March 19) due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

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Reducing Reliance on Oil Revenues by Boosting Handicrafts Industry

reporter 1222 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:51:02 +0000

Reducing Reliance on Oil Revenues by Boosting Handicrafts Industry

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TEHRAN – Head of handicrafts, carpet and tourism committee of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives Mr. Abdollah Bahrami believes by a good and wise planning,carpets and handicrafts can replace oil sales revenues in the country.

Bahrami in a joint press conference with the managing director of Talfigh-e Honar Cooperatives Mr. Seyed Morteza Mortezavi highlighted major programs of cooperative sector in the country in handicrafts industry and ways to reduce reliance on oil revenues.

Bahrami said that Iran’s sales of hand-woven carpets in the past two decades usually stood at $1.5 and over 2m carpet weavers were active in the country while the annual capacity for producing hand-woven carpets was around 6m square meters and it could earn the country $3b through exports of carpet.

He went on to say that lack of attention by the government and abundant problems for carpet-weavers caused Iran to lose its world stance and its forex revenues began to fall. He added that although Iran is full of designs and priceless treasury in diversity in designs, and over 6,000 educated people are involved in the carpet industry, exports and production of carpets are declining due to inattention and negligence.

He also criticized Iran’s Central Bank’s regulations for hand-woven carpet exporters, adding that it takes one year and exporters have to sell their forex in the NIMA system.

He went on to criticize the government for stopping support of carpet weavers by cutting their insurance. He added that the government is not ready to pay its share of social welfare insurance and carpet weavers themselves have to pay the total money and most of them cannot afford them and leave the job.

Bahrami went on to say that in the past, carpet industry was exempted from paying value added tax because most of hand-woven carpet producers from the lowest deciles of the society but today both sale and export have to pay 9 percent VAT.

He added that currently over one million people are active in carpet industry and they can earn the country over $3b.

He said the value of hand-woven carpet last year stood at $420m but the figure has been only $30m in the first four months of the current year.

Bahrami noted that over 113,000 cooperatives for producing hand-woven carpets exist in the country and the number of weavers who are under social welfare insurance is unknown.

He admitted that carpet industry has faced both domestic and international sanctions, adding that exports are done in rial but the raw material for weaving are bought based on free market price.

Bahrami said that Germany, the UAE, South Africa, China and Japan are main destinations for Iran’s hand-woven carpets.

He reiterated that to boost the carpet industry, it needs financial facilities, adding that levying VAT on carpet industry has increased the production cast.

Meanwhile the CEO of Talfigh-e Honar Cooperatives Mr. Mortezavi said that most of handicrafts in the country are produced in the houses and over 6100 workshops are active in the country and over 5,000 people are busy in the handicrafts industry.

He added that according to the statistics, the country exports one million barrel of oil per day and $6m enter into the treasury while by exporting 10,000 pieces of handicrafts, the country can earn the same amount of money.

He reiterated that over 180,000 pieces of handicrafts are produced in the country per day and each piece worth 200 to 400 euros.

Mortezavi added that the statistics show that handicrafts industry can earn 18 times more than what oil earns the country like India whose revenues from handicrafts are over billion dollars.

He said that Iran is the biggest hub of handicrafts industry in West Asia and it can earn money equal to oil revenues in three years.

He went on to say that currently Iran’s handicrafts are exported to European countries and Canada and soon a permanent exhibition for sales of Iranian handicrafts will be set up in Afghanistan, while the cooperative has programs to have vast presence in Germany and Poland.

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Reducing Reliance on Oil Revenues by Boosting Handicrafts Industry

reporter 1222 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:36:50 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of handicrafts, carpet and tourism committee of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives Mr. Abdollah Bahrami believes by a good and wise planning, carpets and handicrafts can replace oil sales revenues in the country and reduce reliance on oil revenues.

Bahrami in a joint press conference with the managing director of Talfigh-e Honar Cooperatives Mr. Seyed Morteza Mortazavi highlighted major programs of the cooperative sector in the country in handicrafts industry and ways to reduce reliance on oil revenues.

He also criticized Iran’s Central Bank’s regulations for hand-woven carpet exporters, adding that it takes one year and exporters have to sell their forex in the NIMA system.

He went on to criticize the government for stopping the support of carpet weavers by cutting their insurance. He added that the government is not ready to pay its share of social welfare insurance and carpet weavers themselves have to pay the total money and most of them cannot afford them and leave the job.

Bahrami went on to say that in the past, the carpet industry was exempted from paying value-added tax because most of the hand-woven carpet producers from the lowest deciles of the society but today both sale and export have to pay 9 percent VAT.

He added that currently over one million people are active in the carpet industry and they can earn the country over $3b.

He said the value of hand-woven carpet last year stood at $420m but the figure has been only $30m in the first four months of the current year.

Bahrami noted that over 113,000 cooperatives for producing hand-woven carpets exist in the country and the number of weavers who are under social welfare insurance is unknown.

He admitted that the carpet industry has faced both domestic and international sanctions, adding that exports are done in rial but the raw material for weaving is bought based on free-market price.

Bahrami said that Germany, the UAE, South Africa, China, and Japan are the main destinations for Iran’s hand-woven carpets.

He reiterated that to boost the carpet industry, it needs financial facilities, adding that levying VAT on the carpet industry has increased the production cast.

Meanwhile, the CEO of Talfigh-e Honar Cooperatives Mr. Mortezavi said that most of the handicrafts in the country are produced in the houses and over 6100 workshops are active in the country and over 5,000 people are busy in the handicrafts industry.

He reiterated that over 180,000 pieces of handicrafts are produced in the country per day and each piece worth 200 to 400 euros.

Mortazavi added that the statistics show that handicrafts industry can earn 18 times more than what oil earns the country like India whose revenues from handicrafts are over billion dollars.

He said that Iran is the biggest hub of the handicrafts industry in West Asia and it can earn money equal to oil revenues in three years. Thus the country’s reliance on oil revenues will decrease by the time handicrafts production goes up.

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Budget Arrangement for Badab-e Surt Springs Restoration

reporter 1222 — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:00:26 +0000

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has allotted a budget of 20 billion rials ($0.4 million) to restore the infrastructure around Surt springs, locally known as Badab-e Surt, located in Mazandaran Province.

According to Seifollah Farzaneh, head of the provincial ICHHTO office, the funds will be spent to build access roads, water transfer pipes and install solar panels to enhance lighting in the area, ISNA reported.

“The springs are jointly managed by Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization, the Regional Water Authority and the provincial ICHHTO,” Farzaneh said.

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Tehran handicrafts export at $15mn in Q1

reporter 1222 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:30:11 +0000

Deputy Head of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) Mohammad Ensha’ei revealed the export of $15.3 million worth of handicrafts from Tehran province in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21).

In the same period, the handicrafts were exported from Tehran province to the countries including Germany, Armenia, Turkey, Republic of Azerbaijan, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Italy, South Africa and Persian Gulf littoral states, he maintained.

He put the value of handicrafts exported from Tehran province in the last year (ended March 20, 2018) at $62 million.

It is predicted that $75 million worth of traditional and exquisite goods would be exported from Tehran province to abroad before termination of the current year (to end March 20, 2019), Ensha’ei emphasized.

Traditional glasses, leather, jewelries, handwoven products, intarsia, wood engravings, decorative stones, clothing and garments have been the main products exported from Tehran province to abroad in the same period, he observed.

Turning to the currency obtained from exporting and selling handicrafts, he said, “for this purpose, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked between Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) and Central Bank of Iran (CBI), the issue of which has been taken into serious consideration.”

Given the above issue, industrialists can either keep currency with themselves or sell it at the free market, he opined.

He revealed the organizing an exhibition of traditional handicrafts in Carpet Museum in the capital Tehran and said, “getting familiarity with the ways of selling, packaging, promoting handicrafts and also familiarizing citizens with exquisite handicrafts have been cited as the main objective behind organizing this exhibition.”

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Iranian handicrafts on show at Florence fair

reporter 1222 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:20:50 +0000

TEHRAN – Varied collections of Iranian handicrafts are on display at the 82nd International Handicrafts Trade Fair, which is currently underway at the Fortezza da Basso, Florence.

32 skilled artisans — natives of different provinces — are promoting their works at the event, ILNA reported on Sunday.

Covering 120 square meters, Iran’s pavilion has been set up by the Touring and Automobile Club in collaboration with the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, the report said.

The pavilion holds workshops and local musical performances as well.

Over the past couple of years, dozens of Iranian handicrafts have gained the UNESCO Seal of Excellence.

Some 800 handicrafts-associated businesses as well as hundreds of craftspeople from about 50 countries are attending the event that runs through May 1.

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Iran Begins Exporting Handicrafts to US, Europe, Official Says

reporter 1222 — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:05:09 +0000

TEHRAN – Iran has recently begun exporting handicrafts to some western countries, including the United States and Britain, an official with the country’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) announced on Saturday.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, the director-general of ICHTO’s Handicraft Exports Department, Pouya Mahmoudian, said the country has managed to “dramatically” increase exports of handicrafts not only to the Persian Gulf littoral states but also to some European countries.

“Among the European Union countries, Germany has the largest share of our exports of handicrafts,” she noted.

“After many years, we succeeded in exporting our products to countries like the US, Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain,” she added.

Iran has stepped up efforts in recent years to enhance its non-oil exports and reduce dependency on its oil revenues.

In 2014, the country’s exports of commodities and natural-gas condensate reached $50 billion, showing a 19 percent increase.

There was also a boom in Iran’s service exports in diverse sectors, including tourism, engineering, and transit.

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