Declining terms of trade between Kurdistan and Iran because of quality control procedures

Author: RG
Editor: SZ | NQ
Wednesday 06 June 2012 15: 47 GMT
Alsumaria news/Sulaymaniyah

Union of Chambers of Commerce in the governorate of Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq, Wednesday, the volume of trade between the region and Iran over port bashamak keep 30%, compared to the same period last year, the main reason to 2011 "crackdown" on implementation of quality control system in the portal.

Deputy Head of Chambers of Commerce in Sulaymaniyah nozard Ghafoor cream in an interview for "alsumaria news", that "the volume of trade between Kurdistan and Iran declined by 30 percent", because this retreat to upheavals "crackdown in the implementation of the quality control system in the portal.

Karim said that "Iranian traders have moved their goods from bashamak crossing to other border crossings", stating that "the governorate of Sulaymaniyah implemented quality control system accurately and tightened its procedures to prevent the entry of corrupt goods."

Vice President of the Chambers of Commerce in Sulaymaniyah that "the number of trucks entering Kurdistan over port bashamak dip 700 300 trucks per day.

Bashamak crossing was opened to serve Penguin border (96 km northeast of Sulaymaniyah), officially in July 2007, and is one of the main ports for importing goods from Iran to the Kurdistan regional markets.

And stresses the Kurdistan regional government sources that the volume of trade between the region and Iran arrived in 2011 more than six billion dollars across a number of ports such as Hajj Umran webashmakh, Pervez Khan.