Customs statistics report a 26% decrease in mobile phone imports

According to the announcement of Iranian customs, in the first three months of 2011, about 3 million mobile phones entered the country, which shows a decrease of more than 26% compared to the same period last year. Also, phones above 600 dollars have only a 4.9% share of the total mobile imports in the spring season.

Faroud Asgari, Deputy Director of Customs Affairs of Iran Customs, told ISNA about the latest details of phone imports in the first three months of this year.

Accordingly, during this spring Three million and 33 thousand and 900 mobile phones worth approx 728 million dollars has entered the country. Meanwhile, during the first quarter of last year, 4,135,149,000 mobile phones worth 823 million dollars were imported.

This statistic from A decrease of 26.6 percent The number of phone imports and 11.64 percent The import value of this product is telling.

It should be mentioned that out of the total imports of this year, phones above 600 dollars or the so-called flagship phones had a share of only 4.9%. The value of these phones is about 180 million dollars, which includes 24.7% of the total value of phone imports in the first three months.

It seems that although the share of flagship phones has not changed much in terms of number, we have seen a 5% drop in terms of dollar value. “Amir Ishaghi”, the secretary of the Mobile Importers Association, announced in January of last year in a conversation with Digiato Flagship phones from Azar 1399 to Azar 1400 5% share In terms of number and 29 percent in terms of the total value of imports had assigned to themselves.

This is while “Mohammedreza Alian”, the spokesperson of the Mobile Importers Association, told Digiato last week that from May 24, for Importing flagship phones No currency has been assigned. According to him, the interruption in the legal import of these mobile phones has caused 130,000 iPhones to enter the country through the passenger procedure since the beginning of this year, which harms the country’s economy due to the supply of foreign currency from the market.