34% decrease in carpet exports in 1399
A member of the board of directors of the Iranian Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Union said: Fortunately, domestic consumption is still established and part of the export carpets are the same carpets that have been used in the domestic market for years. Thus, popular domestic carpets enter the global market.
Seyed Morteza Miri stated: In export markets (which can be examined for various reasons); Last year we saw a very sharp drop in exports. So that with a decrease of $ 72 million in exports compared to the previous year (1397), we saw the lowest amount of exports in the last 40 years.
He continued: This year, due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, as well as injuries such as the suspension of business cards and tax issues (the first year of tax processing in 1397 and the year of foreign exchange commitment in the new period) and foreign exchange showed its consequences and caused We will see a 34% decrease compared to the same period last year.
He stressed: Unfortunately, in the first four months of 1399, we witnessed the export of $ 15 million worth of handmade carpets, which seems to be unattainable last year and the downward trend in exports will continue, and if the problems we faced before the sanctions, such as policies Internal inaccuracies in small and medium-sized manufacturing industries and the field of handmade carpets, which are different in nature and identity from other commercial fields, we still face the downward trend in the amount of handmade carpet exports continues.