Iran Customs: The import of miner with energy grade lower than A and B is prohibited

In a new notification, Iran’s customs has announced that the clearance of digital currency mining devices (miners) is subject to the submission of a license from the National Standard Organization and the import of these devices with energy consumption grades lower than A and B is prohibited. In this announcement, it is also said that the importers of miner devices are required to insert the serial number on each device.

According to Erzdigital and to quote From Student News Agency, Ali Vakili, Director General of the Iran Customs Import Office, announced in a circular to the Shaam Secretariat, the Ministry of Energy, the National Standard Organization of Iran and the Customs Import Office that the clearance of cryptocurrency mining devices (miners) is subject to the submission of a license from the National Standard Organization and the import This device is prohibited with grades lower than A and B.

In this circular which was issued on the 6th of May, it is stated: following the circulars No. 139/99/876775 dated 7/23/1399, 1058706/175/99/1058706 dated 196/1400/1141764 dated 8/28/1400 and ID 6325098 regarding Cryptocurrency mining devices (miners), according to the inclusion of mandatory standard provisions, order the import of cryptocurrency mining devices (miners) under tariff line 84719020;

1- The clearance of cryptocurrency mining devices is subject to the submission of the license of the National Standard Organization of Iran in the comprehensive system of customs affairs on the relevant declaration.

2- The importers of the above goods are required to enter the serial number of each device in the comment on the declaration in the comprehensive customs system.

3- The physical evaluation of the declared cargo requires checking and selectively matching at least 5% of the declared serial numbers of the importer with the serial number inserted on the declared goods.

4- Declaration of cryptocurrency mining devices (miner) and tariff line 84719020 is placed in the red track and the goods are evaluated.

5- According to row (35) of paragraph (6) of the list of goods subject to the mandatory implementation of the standard in terms of energy label, the import of cryptocurrency mining devices (miners) with a grade lower than A and B is prohibited, therefore, while evaluating the imported goods carefully In installing the energy consumption label on the product, according to the grade of the energy consumption label of the product, the usual attention should be paid and the degree of visibility of the energy consumption label and its grade should be included in the evaluation report.

Ali Babaknia, the head of the mining working group of the Iranian Blockchain Association, previously said in a conversation with AruzDigital about the standards related to digital currency mining devices:

In the sector of production and import of extraction devices, according to its procedure, the National Standard Organization samples a number of devices produced or imported by each person or company and examines them in terms of energy efficiency and quality. The difference between imported devices and domestically produced devices is that the import of all goods with energy labels other than “A” and “B” is prohibited, but domestically produced devices can be labeled with energy labels lower than A and B. It means categories C and D) should be offered in the market.