Persons who have resided in the frontier
districts of the country for three consecutive years, and qualify
for the requirements set forth in Article 211 of the Civil Code in
respect of dealing in the purchase and sale of goods, may obtain a
peddling card and engage in border exchange activities within the
framework of the regulations laid down in Article 20 herein.
·
Note
The peddling card shall be issued by the local Department
of Commerce and be valid for one year from the date ofissuance.
During the one-year validity period of the peddling card,
the holders may export, without deputing a proxy, permissible goods,
or those authorized for export under a "general approval", to the
country or countries neighbouring their place of abode, with due
regard to the relevant regulations. In return for goods so exported,
they may import and clear for their own use, permissible or
conditional goods from the same countries, or from Free Trade-
Industrial Zones or Special Protected Zones by obtaining necessary
license as set forth in the tables annexed to the Export-Import
Regulations. Such imports shall be subject to the payment of customs
duty and commercial benefit tax. The list of goods importable in
this manner shall be prepared and promulgated by the Ministry of
Commerce.
Iranian workers and nationals employed abroad
who hold an employment certificate from the Labour Attache of the
Islamic Republic of Iran in the country of their residence, or the
Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs may import and clear industrial
machinery, tools and primary materials with the exception of items
contained in the following list, up to an annual value ceiling
ofRls. twenty million (20,000,000), by securing a permit from the
Labour Attache, or the Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs. These
goods may be imported through all ports in the country, or through
Free Trade-Industrial Zones, or Especial Protected Customs Zones,
subject to the payment of the applicable customs duty and commercial
benefit tax. Such imports may benefit from commercial benefit tax
exemption of 40% in the case of machinery and 20% in the case of
primary materials, and imported without remittance abroad of foreign
exchange, presentation of Commercial Card, or import licensing set
forth in the tables appendixed to the Export-lmport Regulations,
with due regard to other relevant regulations.
Presentation of the
employment certificate and permit from the Labour Attache, or the
Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs shall be sufficient for the
clearance, and the presence in person of the holder of the said
certificate shall not be necessarily required.
·
Note 1
Iranian workers and
nationals employed abroad who are covered by this Article may
deputize the cooperative company of workers employed abroad or in
its absence, other persons to carry out the importation on their
behalf.
·
Note 2
Goods imported by the
aforesaid workers and Iranian employed abroad, through other ports
of entry, or in excess of the ceiling specified in this Article,
shall be subject to the general regulations of the country.
Machinery, tools and primary
materials unauthorized for importation by
Iranian workers employed
abroad:
1.Sheet-fedprintingmachine
2. Printing machines for plastics
3. Automatic-cream machines
4. Gold-foil printing machines for binding
5. Balancing machines, repair shop type
6. Multitillers
7. Rototillers
8. Heat exchanger
9. Electric sewing machine, domestic type
10. Machines for making wooden doors
11. Wood turning machines
12. Miniloaders
13. Ditchers
14. Steam boilers, cast-iron boilers, heat exchangers, etc.
15. Drier for cereals, forage, and vegetables (stationary and
mobile)
16. Slaughterhouse machinery for livestock and poultry
17. Machinery and equipment for preparing livestock and
poultry feed
18. Poultry incubators and equipment
19. Forage harvesting machinery, including choppers, balers
and mowers
20. Self-propelled forage choppers
21. Shakers, sorting and packaging equipment for fruits
22. Processing machines of various types
23. Motorpumps and electropumps of various types
24. Air compressors and vacuum pumps of various types
25. Pumps of various types
26. Viscometer
27. Autoclaves ofvarious types
28. Percussion and hydraulic presses; shears and guillotines
of various types
29. Briquetting presses; pipe and bar benders and shears for
bars
30. Leather dressing and finishing machinery
31. Sandblasting and shotblasting machines
32. Sausage stuffmgmachinery
33. Industrial laundry machines of various types
34. Shrinkwrap equipment
35. Three-phase electromotors up to 30 hp
36. Dyeing equipment for cloth and yarn
37. Carpet producing machine
38. Cloth weaving machine, except for airjet and
waterjettypes
39. Various kinds of electromotors gearbox single and
variable-spead
40. Truck-mounted cranes of various types
41. Industrial and constructional escalators and elevators of
various types
42. Mobile
cranes, less than 30 tonnes
43. Flour and cereals processing machinery
44. Freon compressors
45. Stone cutting machines
46. Seed planters and row seeders of various types
47. Rakes and cultivators
48. Sprayers of various. types, (motorized knapsack,
wheel-barrow,
hand-borrow and tractor-mounted).
49. Furrowers
50. Potato planters and harvesters
51. Pistachio nut processing machines
52. Dickers
53. Trailorsof various kinds
54. Flame torches
55. Disks of various types
56. Levelers
57. Post hole diggers
58. Threshers of various types
59. Rice polishing equipment
60. Universal lathes of various types
61. Plate grinders
62. Ripsaw
63. Various kinds of universal milling machines, horizontal
or vertical
64. Radial drilling machines
65. Column-type drilling machines
66. Bench grinders, flat grinders and grinding wheels
67. Open-end and ring wrenches
68. Pliers, needle-nose pliers, phasemetres, screwdrivers,
locking
pliers wrenches, and adjustable wrenches of various kinds
69. All kinds of faucets and fixtures
70. Various kinds of non-electrical lift trucks
71. Plastic injection machines of various kinds
72. Single-phase electro motors up to 4kw
73. Various kinds of tractors between 50 and 100hp
74. Ploughs, including one-way and two-way ploughs
75. Radioactive materials
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