Transcripts For IRINN 20240703

The service line, the public line. Sanger is your stronghold, this is the table, and there is hope for you on the other side of the table, in the eyes of the city in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful. Hello, people of iran, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the front page. Today was National Export day, and we honored the countrys top 50 exporters in various fields. And the head of the trade Development Organization, i say hello again, mr. Zigmi, and no, first of all, i say hello to you, dear viewers, on this day , i congratulate the dear exporters, mr. Zigmi, one question , the head of the trade Development Organization. The guest of our program, i have a question about this organization it arises that what should this organization do or what has it done during these decades , did it have enough powers and now the work that is expected from this organization has not been done enough, or did it have powers and could not be so called successful . Yes, look, this organizations main task, as its name suggests, is to develop trade, or basically to encourage the development of trade using the tools provided to it , it has several tools, such as sending advisors to commercial centers, paying export incentives, and committees that it has which gives licenses and permits to issue Technical Services the engineer uses these tools and conducts an observation of the world trade situation of the countries that have potential, and then organizes an exhibition there or gives permission to bring the trade board to internal exhibitions. Since then, according to the events that have happened, it can be practically checked. Well, at one time, we used to give an export award and pay a percentage of the technical Engineering Service contracts. It was a significant number. In the same years, it led to the fact that many projects hi khodam technical Engineering Companies in iran the tenders should be won, and yes, for the exporters, it is noticeable how much this type of service that is given has an effect on the facilitation of their business. One of its main tasks is to remove obstacles from the process of developing exports. There is export, but since we are the development of trade, we have been helping to remove obstacles from the development of exports since it is the development of trade in the matter of import, because it has an Important Role in the matter of production infrastructure and raw materials. Facilitate the export business process in legal discussions i mean the sellers and merchants of the country, i mean, now in the last one or two years. Exports in the country have increased, irans trade balance has become positive, and something has happened. We should know these events as the result of the work that is happening in the trade Development Organization, or it has happened in these two years, or perhaps we should relate it to the Vice President of diplomacy, for example , the ministry of commerce. Of course, Foreign Affairs may be a combination of all the Business Development that exists in the country, which is us, in the discussion of Business Development mr. Akter safari, in the discussion of economic diplomacy, part of the international spheres, other vicechancellors each have a role. The laws that are approved, the trips of mr. President and the market and the country to which exports are facilitated, all these have an effect, thats why i said that in some cases it is possible to recognize what results this performance or action has led to, but if lets say whether its just because of the organization, not to delete it, not to say that its obvious that i want to tell a society that the reality is that these are all intertwined. A discussion has happened that the government is present in the markets and countries of the countries that maybe before, we did not have a Good Business and political relationship, i am not saying that we were enemies, maybe politically, but we had absolutely no relationship in the business field. For example, holding a meeting with the president of the United Nations and requesting that mr. Raven travel there, after that trip, an opening happened in the commercial field, for example, we were able to make an agreement in the banking or financial field so that we could move the currency. In the form of contributions to be able to anchor our ships in that port, these are all the effects of those trips that happened or the coming and going of businessmen and political officials , economic and commercial diplomacy, led to the fact that we were able to establish relations with more countries , we were able to join the Eurasian Economic Union sooner. We joined, we were able to join shanghai, we were able to join brics, these are the events that are the result of the interaction of mr. President , the honorable ministers of the countrys commercial and economic diplomacy and other institutions , including the trade channel organization. The increase in exports and the positive trade balance of iran in the last one or two years, let me ask you a question, the increasing trend of Foreign Trade in the 13th government of 2019 is a kind of commodity trade situation, that is, both imports and exports of 74 billion dollars in 1400 will reach 12 billion dollars in 1401. It reaches 113 billion dollars, which means that it shows growth. In the first 6 months of this year, Foreign Trade had an increasing trend. The sum total of Foreign Trade, emphasizing that Foreign Trade is without oil. This means that our total import and export has reached 5. 46 billion dollars with a weight of about 85. 3 million tons, which in terms of value is 500 and 24 weighted opinion shows growth compared to last year. Of this amount, 24 billion dollars is the value of goods exported from the country, and petrochemical products are at the top of the list of export goods of the export group of petrochemical products, which includes gas exports, reaching 26 million tons, and the value is nearly 10. 6 billion dollars, although three the neighboring countries of iraq, the uae and turkey, and two large Asian Countries , namely india and china , were the five main destinations of iranian hats during this period. But this incident did not cause the neglect of the markets of other regions of the world and the diversity of export destinations is on the agenda. We grow belarus it is very good that the volume of our trade has grown four times in these five months compared to the same period at the beginning of the year. Today , at the export day ceremony, minister of state announced the establishment of the possibility of clearing goods with belarus. Official membership in the Shanghai Organization of the brics group , preferential and Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union, strengthening trade relations with the african region and activating transit corridors, including the northsouth , are among the actions of the 13th government to increase trade. It was foreign. Ok. Well, mr. Ziqmi, one of the things that you said you should do in the trade Extension Organization is to give incentives to iranian traders and exports, and according to the umm salal budget law, you should have given 1000 billion tomans of export incentives to exporters. You have paid so far, but unfortunately, we have a problem. In my opinion, one of the most important tools that the trade Development Organization has is the incentive tool , which we actually help with these incentives , especially in lowlevel areas such as export terminals of commercial centers. Neat marine lines look when we come, we will create a line or create a banking and Financial Exchange system. The exporters themselves know how to export. We just need to do this infrastructural process. I dont want to say that its only been a formality for one or two years that in the last two or three days they give the organization a sum of money as an export credit, which is usually below 100. 5 of this number, and the organization has to spend within 10 to 15 days, and thats fine. The reality does not lead to a big event , i dont want to say that finally parsa 10 billion 120 we received billions of incentives, many of the countrys export profits were paid to them, trade centers , exhibitions, the costs of participating in foreign exhibitions, but the reality is that this is not enough. If we have a regular program of these incentives, we can also make policies and be accountable for the cost incurred in regular sea lines and regular air lines in the discussion of creating simple terminal infrastructures inside and outside the country or Business Centers outside the country. The output for the country has happened not that it might lead to a failure, but at least concrete lessons can be learned from it. For a next program for the next year, he did not do it , as i said, we requested several times. It seems that they have agreed to a forgiveness that, god willing, we can receive a certain amount in the evening, although it is not enough, after all , we have very big plans, such as the iran exhibition, for example, for next year, such as the meeting of iran and the African Union , such as the program for the regular error of dariye with several the country has agreed to start. We are also part of that support. Please help us so that we can make the right policy for the study of Foreign Trade by receiving these incentives earlier. Or the ecs that we help to actually help change the export attitude of the country with this kind of support. From the fact that we can pay for the freight that they export, participating in foreign exhibitions will be paid up to 900 depending on the priority. Trade centers and export terminals and exhibitions that are going to be established in the cities, part of their expenses will be paid with the existing export approaches , so nothing will be given to the exporters themselves. Or participation in their foreign exhibitions is supported. In addition to these export incentives, what other support do you have from exporters . Well, some of our support may not be very quantitative in terms of numbers because it is of a qualitative nature, like we have in the countries where we have trade advisors. Well, there is a cost to the government, but that cost is in return. What is happening in order to resolve the issues and problems of our merchants in that country or to create new infrastructures and define new tasks with the government of that country and the commercial sector of that country is really not a number at all. In my opinion, it can help a lot and all the merchants request us to re establish Business Advisors for our members even in the countries that we do not currently have. A country with a very high potential is there, they are trying to do the same task in the form of financial support. The permits that we give to the committee of article 5 and article 19 for the export of services or semiEngineering Services, upon receipt of this, we will help in obtaining it, it will make them exempt from taxes in the matter of clearing the Foreign Exchange obligation, and they will be able to take out their machines. Well, this is one part. Among these incentives , there are hidden incentives that are happening now now we have trade advisors in several countries, 22 countries, because we are returning to some countries , their time is running out, we want to send them again, so this will be 22 to 25 countries. We have been strict in sending consultants, thats why maybe 3 people will be selected for the interview , who can have the best performance for the business of the country and for our merchants, and by the end of next year, god willing, there will be 45, i hope we can reach 70. Lets talk about the important thing, despite being strict what do you want to do . Yes, we really need the help of our friends in the budget plan to help us to be able to provide this budget. Let me tell you an important thing. Well, friends, you have heard that turkey, china , and many other countries have consulting offices and employ several consultants. There are and even some private sectors have consulting missions. With a consultant in a foreign country such as turkey, china, india, brazil, the uae, iraq, which we are with, especially with the five countries that were included in the program, such as the uae, china, iraq, turkey, afghanistan and india. Well , we have a high business with these. With a consultant cant give full coverage. Especially in china. Every in fact, his city may have the jdp of a developed country. God willing, we have a plan according to what we are doing in the field of prioritizing countries, and god willing , we will present the last plan soon. In some countries, we should have a consultant in every important city and we can establish a representative of the organization in that country. What should they do there . Look, its basically a marketing and market creation for new products, especially with a focus on products that have added value. Well, we are in many of these countries. We are very important in the field of Knowledge Base in the fields of agriculture, complementary construction industry, well, many of us participate in maybe some exhibitions this year, well, the number of licenses we have has doubled , we have licensed more than a hundred exhibitions abroad. I did marketing and creating a market for the entry of new iranian goods, and secondly, solving the problem that occurs for traders , thirdly, promoting Foreign Traders and participating in iran s exhibitions, and actually promoting them. With the principle of Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs and our trade advisors, we were able to attract more than 1300 Business People who were really reliable and 60 of them were in iran for the first time, and very good things happened as a result of this attraction of these business delegations. In previous years, i usually merchants are not very satisfied with the performance of irans commercial consultants. Do you have any estimates to show whether this satisfaction has increased or not yet . We are regularly reporting their performance once every three months based on the performance report they give and the performance report that we present so to speak. Now we receive information from the companies that are present in the exhibitions or have connections in that country. The ambassadors themselves also give us feedback. Dissatisfaction has decreased a lot, yes, but we must say that based on the reality of the existing capacity, there may be a request that raziza really doesnt have the ability or cant do the job. Do it and then go to the needs of individual exporters and traders but our reality is based on the feedback we had, well, we very seriously told the consultants that if the performance is not acceptable after a month or 6 months, even if they are still around , we will return the people. Activists, even if raizni is not very active in my opinion, with the merchants we talk to, since he can solve their problems, and in that country, he is the only representative of our country who is following up the Business Affairs , still the friends are satisfied to an acceptable extent. There are those who follow up these issues and their problems by our consultant is it possible that the minimum thing they should do is give advice and that, but i said it is not enough, we expect much more and it is significant that our women are now doing what we want in taking important projects in connecting businessmen between the two countries. Getting a good space for the exhibition area, attracting foreign delegations and highranking businessmen into the country, they are doing this. When they go to those countries , they do some kind of market research. Yes, a businessman can go to any country when he goes. Irans commercial adviser in that country and he should tell him what the market is for here what are the things or what path should be taken here, what are the risks here, what are the problems in the field of Money Transfer , right . There is finance, but what solutions are there to solve it . More from this point of view, we asked rai zaman to help us in the organization with the terminology that exists in the central bank, the ministry of roads, the ministry of Foreign Affairs and other institutions. Lets build the infrastructure to solve problems in general, god willing we also have commercial centers, it is true that it is related to the field of commercial consultants, not an independent issue. Well, i think the reality is that in the field of trade , we have some Unfinished Business and we must be able to do it faster than the current routes, socalled routes. Lets use short cuts or shortcuts. Well, we have a onecapacity consultation on behalf of the countries. Well, we cannot consult with some countries. We may not even have a Representative Office in any country. It is an embassy system. Well , our Business Center is a private sector for which one task is designed. This is to be able to a few areas to help other traders in the field of knowledge of that market. In the matter of financial transfers, he should be able to introduce irans capabilities to foreign merchants through the permanent exhibition showrooms that he should establish in his office and make available to companies that can introduce iranian products to foreign merchants. Familiarize them. The next point is that the customs guarantee fund should be placed in the hands of the traders or in the hands of the subcenters that provide infrastructure so that they can give advice. Well, i do not claim that it has reached this maturity everywhere. Before the government sisam, we had maybe 10 scattered commercial centers, it was not a plan, now it has become a program, now it has reached 50 commercial centers in nearly 40 countries, and this process is developing with a very good gradient, we actually give them a license. We will give, and if possible, it will be a cost in the discussion of the commercial center, but, well, most of the aid that they give is in the countries that i mentioned , maybe we dont have much capacity, for example , we exported maybe 7 thousand dollars to a country in latin america last year. We had 1000 dollars of exports and 40 dollars of imports, in total 25 thousand it was a significant number of dollars. It is not a fact. A Business Center requested that we bring a quality businessman to the iran expo exhibition. Well, the guests of all the businessmen are the guests of the iran expo in terms of the expenses they have in terms of hotel and accommodation expenses, and they, after he left iran, placed several orders in Industrial Areas from iran, and he is going to bring 15 people again for this years exhibition. We cant do anything special with just one person you dont tell us. It doesnt have any results, it definitely has its own results, but its not enough. We have Business Centers in several cities that are helping our consultants with many tasks, helping in business discussions , and helping with the process of delivery or helping in holding exhibitions. Without them, in practice, many of our works may be lame and we cannot reach results. They really play an Important Role. There is no relationship at all , because the relationship of cooperation is definitely cooperation, yes, but for example, it is not a subcategory, but in any country , our ambassador is practically the commander of iran in that country. In the commercial field, there is also a commercial consultant, but this is how we wanted them to cooperate more and cover each others gaps in places where there is a gap , but this is the way that our center should be able to coordinate with the consultant in the country where we have a path , that is, it should not be a tool. Hit separately dont be against the business trend of the country or what our rise wants, it should not be against the behavior. Your employee counts but what about the Shopping Center . He is no longer your employee, he is a private sector that officially has the flag of the Islamic Republic of iran, but he represents you, that is, you, anyway , he needs permission from the embassy. The Islamic Republic of iran accepts him and even though that person may have enough rank and credit there. But he finds an identity from a center that is approved by the country, he can hold official meetings, he can hold exhibitions, take a delegation to iran. And he has this acceptance, definitely if he has a violation or a violation, his license will definitely be revoked, and in what country did he say that these iranian commercial centers are now in 405 countries . Tell me 10 or five of the most important ones during , for example, sarrabadan nicaragua, this is new. Yes, it is new. Some countries in east asia, for example , we have a new center in some countries, for example, indonesia. For example, in china , we have given a center in guangzhou. We had centers in suzhou and shankai, but this is it added will be added and this will not have a conflict of interest. No, some markets are so big that now we are selling in different cities, but we all have 5 centers in iraq , each of them has their own approach, but some markets are so big that if the companies and teams behave professionally, it can be done. They should help each other and create synergy rather than creating synergy rather than conflicting with each others interests. Now, perhaps, a report like this will also be sent to you , which happens to be the same. New Free Trade Agreements, tell us how many places we had with eurasia and let me tell you what is actually happening about brics and about shanghai and all this. Yes, look, free and preferential trade leads to very, very big positive events in the future of the countrys trade, and they do not happen at the moment. Also, unfortunately, we are lagging behind in this area too. It is included in the definition of trade with Different Countries and in this alhamdulillah, the government has done this very quickly, so that the organization is well according to the organizations statutes, the Development Organization is the only institution that can enter into negotiations regarding bilateral or multilateral agreements, can conclude negotiations and lead to an agreement. From the agreement, the original was the Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement, which had probably more than 20 negotiation sessions over several years. It was almost finalized and everything was done. There was even a small celebration, but one of the countries suddenly accepted a request. He put it on the table of 5 other countries, including iran added an issue, and this issue led to the fact that we reexamined it. Alhamdulillah, it is now finalized and agreed to be signed by the ministers of the 5 allied countries by the end of the year. When we arrived, i think it is much more economical than the shanghai area, the National Currency is defined as a regional currency, and a clear structure is defined. The commercial systems and trades are being defined in its own heart with the African Union. It can help a lot. We are also negotiating with Different Countries, that is, the currency unit. Yes, there is a currency unit that is being discussed for the brics member countries. Well, for Something Like the euro , for example, yes, yes, it means that the currency of these countries can change. Well, what i want to say is that we had indonesia, which was finalized, we sent it to the parliament, and god willing, syria was approved in the parliament, and free trade, god willing, we are in the final part , we are still signing with syria, that is, we have not reached this point, there was a signing about 10 years ago an issue was raised that we have several product groups we deleted several product groups, the deletion was not actually implemented, we deleted each others position,