2.5 Increasing Iran’s export of non-oil goods to Lebanon with new methods

According to the economic reporter of Fars News Agency, Iran’s exports to Lebanon in the past 20 years averaged less than 24 million dollars and in 2022 reached the highest figure of 112 million dollars during these years, and compared to 2021 which It was about 44 million dollars, showing a 2.5 times increase.

This increase has caused our country’s market share to double and Iran has been upgraded from 48 to 32 in the list of Lebanon’s trading partners. During the past years, the highest figure of Iran’s exports to Lebanon was in 2017 with a figure equal to 62 million dollars.

Ebrahim Mohammad Rezazadeh, Iran’s trade advisor in Lebanon, said in an interview with Fars: According to Lebanese businessmen, the import of goods from Iran from other countries such as Iraq, the UAE, and Turkey is twice the amount recorded in the Lebanese customs, and the main reason for this is the change The origin is in third countries and facilitating the businessmen of other countries in buying Iranian goods.

He added: Currently, due to the demand for 100% advance payment from the producers, Iranian products are bought indirectly by paying 10% in advance and 90% when delivered to Lebanese merchants by merchants from other countries and delivered to Lebanese merchants or to The reason for the restrictions of the embargo is that by doing cross-staffing and changing the origin by traders from other countries, they enter Lebanon from the origin of third countries.

This commercial consultant stated: Only in the field of importing Iranian rebar to Lebanon, an approximate annual figure of 150 million dollars has been announced. With these explanations, the approximate statistics of Iranian goods exports to Lebanon are estimated to be more than 300 million dollars in 2022. This amount of export can be increased even up to two times if the payment method is corrected and the cost of transportation is reduced. In this regard, it is suggested that the export management companies use the services of the export guarantee fund and the buyer’s credit of the Export Development Bank to eliminate intermediaries and reduce the export price.

Rezazadeh stated: In addition, creating an export consortium and completing the value chain from the producer to its warehouse and making the goods available in Lebanon can help to reduce the cost price and increase the competitiveness of Iranian goods in the Lebanese market by eliminating intermediaries and overcoming the fear of businessmen from sanctions. It’s worth it. This plan is presented in writing at the beginning of the deployment.

He also stated: The reasons for the increase in Iran’s exports to Lebanon are the familiarity of Lebanese businessmen with the Iranian market, as well as the good quality and reasonable prices of Iranian goods.

Export table of the first 10 items of our country’s goods to Lebanon

According to this report: Lebanon has a free trade agreement with the United States, some European countries and Arab countries, which is a total of 45 countries, so the import tariff of these countries to Lebanon is zero and they can easily export goods to Lebanon, but despite this, the price of export goods We are more suitable than our competitors in the Lebanese market, and this issue has also become one of the factors of increasing Iran’s exports to Lebanon.

According to Rezazadeh, Iran’s business advisor, the number of Lebanese immigrants in different countries of the world is very large, and in other words, three times the population of his country lives abroad, and these people are active in trade, hotel and banking in different countries, and most of their business is also It is with African countries and Brazil, so through communication with these people, we can export to African countries and Brazil.

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