The damage to the economy from the previous government’s delay in implementing the anti-trafficking law

According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, without a doubt one of the main onesMost The country’s economic problems in recent years have been exchange rate instability, an issue that seems to have been unaffected by managerial changes at the highest levels and still engulfing the energy of most of the country’s executives.

However, in all these years, especially during the 1990s, “oppressive sanctions” have dominated the foreign exchange market as a major factor.Radiation But the evidence shows The lack of determination of executive managers in improving the country’s currency balance, as well as the non-implementation of some regulatory laws in the field of economy, such as the law against combating smuggling of goods and currency and the law against money laundering, have contributed significantly to deepening some of these problems.

In other words, since the only operational plan of the previous government to solve the economic problems was Borjam and interaction with the West, so the withdrawal of the United States from Borjam in 1397 caused the country many problems; On the other hand, all the remaining 3 years of the previous administration were spent dreaming of the return of the United States to Borjam, and the result of this policy was only a sharp decline in the country’s foreign exchange earnings.

Meanwhile, in the first months of its activity, the 13th government is trying to provide the necessary ground for some economic reforms by controlling liquidity and effectively monitoring the circulation of the rial. Apart from this, the President’s strict order to combat smuggling of goods indicates that the executive’s view of economic problems is more pathological than in the past.

At present, according to official statistics provided by the Anti-Trafficking in Goods and Foreign Exchange Headquarters, about 10 to 12 billion dollars of smuggled goods enter the country annually; This is while, for example, the total export of goods in 1999, barely reached $ 34 billion. It is no secret that the continuation of this amount of smuggling, taking into account at least $ 40 billion in official imports, has painted a dark outlook for the country’s currency balance.

For this reason, smuggling of goods is always mentioned as one of the causes of turmoil in the foreign exchange market; Because the demand for currency increases sharply in the free market. Of course, the increase in demand for foreign currency is only one of the disadvantages of smuggling goods, and the increase in unemployment and the reduction of GDP are other consequences of smuggling for the country’s economy.

* Abandon the actions of the devices in the implementation of the law against smuggling of goods and currency

With the enactment of the Anti-Trafficking in Goods and Foreign Exchange Law in 1992, it was hoped that the legal loopholes to deal with this ominous phenomenon would be filled, but with the delay and lack of determination of relevant officials to fully implement the provisions of this law, except for one or two commodity groups such as mobile phones. In which effective measures were taken to prevent the entry of smuggled goods into the country, there was practically no success.

A law that provided inspectors, supervisors, and officers with the ability to separate genuine goods (imported or manufactured) from smuggled goods by setting up information systems and providing strong legal backing and enforcement guarantees. Eliminate an important obstacle in the path of production mutation.

But now we see that despite the fact that more than 9 years have passed since the adoption of this law and also the completion of a significant part of the related systems and the establishment of the necessary infrastructure, still a major part of the markets of “home appliances”, “clothing”, “tobacco”. “Cosmetics” and “spare parts” are in the hands of smuggled goods.

On the other hand, due to the lack of full implementation of the law on combating smuggling of goods and currency, the sale and purchase of currency in the open market has grown in such a way that even in small cities this process is ongoing. In other words, abandonment of the law and non-implementation of the law has caused the purchase and sale of currency in the open market to spread from Ferdowsi Square in Tehran to the whole country, and with the continuation of this process, we should see the free market of rural currency.

“Prohibition of tomorrow’s transactions”, “Emphasis on the return of foreign exchange from exports” and “Explicit reference to the unnecessary transportation and storage of foreign exchange as an act of smuggling” are among the cases in which Makes it smoother than in the past.

* Is the fight against smuggling intensifying?

According to Fars, former President Ibrahim Raisi; With the promulgation of the 9-point instruction on February 20, last year, all agencies related to the Anti-Trafficking in Goods and Foreign Exchange Law were required to take the necessary measures and measures to combat smuggling.

On the other hand, at the end of April this year, “Law Amending the Law on Combating Commodity and Currency Smuggling” by Mohammad Baqer قالیباف, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, was notified to the government; Based on this, the executive bodies got acquainted with their latest tasks in the field of combating trafficking.

In this regard, Yasser Savadkoohi, Director General of the Office for Coordination of Countering and Monitoring the Financial Flow of Smuggling of the Central Headquarters for Combating Commodity and Currency Smuggling, says: The car will be done extensively.

It seems that Finally Over the years, the process of combating smuggling of goods and currency has come to the attention of executive officials.

Therefore, if the smuggling of goods across the country intensifies, it can be said that the consequences of this economic damage will gradually decrease.

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