Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Tehran Nizomiddin Zohidi says that the volume of exchanges between his country and Iran has reached as much as $270 million.
The figure, he said during a meeting in Mashhad on Monday with Yaghoubali Nazari, the governor general of Iran’s northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, shows a significant rise in comparison to $57 million in bilateral exchanges five years ago.
Back in February, the Tajik ambassador had a meeting in Tehran with Samad Hassanzadeh, the president of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (ICCIMA), where he referred to “over 250 cooperation documents” between the two countries in 30 years, noting that if half of these documents had become operational, bilateral exchanges would have now reached as much as $1 billion.
The Iran Chamber of Commerce president has also said that more enhanced trade between Iran and Tajikistan rests upon establishment of a preferential trade regime between the two countries.
Hassanzadeh said that sudden increase of customs tariffs on certain Iranian export items to Tajikistan is an obstacle to bilateral trade, urging the country to reconsider its decision.