SEF opens a center for Syrian exports in Tehran

Damascus, (ST)-  During a visit last week to Tehran, a delegation representing the Syrian Exporters’ Federation  (SEF), businessmen, exporters and producers, the Syrian Exporters’ Federation opened a center for Syrian exports in Tehran and put it in Syrian exporters service to help them market their products in the Iranian market and to identify the requirements of the Syrian goods

In a statement, the SEF announced that preparations for the launch of a series of exhibitions in a number of Iranian cities in some of production sectors in the Iranian market and will start with an exhibition of textile products beginning next September.

The SEF plans make the show one of the largest and most important exhibitions textile held in abroad, due to the importance of the Iranian market and the ability of Iranian markets to be an important Syrian center of textile products, which witnessed a recovery during the past two years, what enabled them to restore export potential.

“Dozens of Syrian companies will showcase their products in this exhibition,” the statement pointed out.

According to the statement, this move comes along with establishing maritime transport and implementing the free trade agreement between the two countries under which goods can be exchanged with competitive tariffs that do not exceed 4%.

In a press statement the head of the Syrian Exporters’ Federation , Mohammed al Sawah, he pointed to the big government support that would help in the advancement of exports, especially with the existence of real possibilities to Syria for export in a significant number of agricultural and industrial sectors, noting that “Iran can be a equivalent market to the Iraqi market in importance and absorbed the Syrian product this means that the export possibilities are open and mostly could come from textile sector which is already looking for new export markets to build upon its expansion plans and increase productivity. “

“The roads are actually open before the start of Syria’s real direction of the Iranian market and this requires us to make every effort to achieve that as we can from the advancement of trade figures properly and away from individual errors and bringing them to a level that aspires to the two peoples in the two countries the righteous. “

The Prime Minister Imad Khamis met last week with the Syrian Exporters’ Federation, where he underlined the need to support exporters and improve the export process, complementing the advancement of the process productivity in the agricultural and industrial sectors as he called for the ministries and departments concerned to overcome all difficulties in the export sector to allow for its growth and development and to secure its real contribution to support the state treasury.

Sh. Kh