In order to benefit from privileges provided
for under Article 10 of the law, the crew members and sailors of vessels
commuting between the shores of the Islamic Republic of Iran and other countries
must hold a valid identification card issued by the Ports & Shipping
Organization. Those crew members and sailors holding such a card, shall be
entitled to the same privileges that are extended to the cooperative companies
of frontier zone inhabitants, or to the households residing in these zones, and
may import and clear in proportion to the number of their dependants such goods
as are importable by the said companies and households, while benefiting from
the facilities foreseen in this respect, and with due regard to the relevant
conditions.
Note. Every foregoing crew member and sailor
while benefiting from the afore-mentioned privileges, may import goods twice a
year , each time as much as Rls 500 000, from the list of importable items by
the border inhabitants and clear them making use of the facilities foreseen in
this respect .
Persons who have resided in the frontier
districts of the country for three consecutive years, and qualify for the
requirements set forth in Article 211 of the Civil Code in respect of dealing in
the purchase and sale of goods, may obtain a peddling card and engage in border
exchange activities within the framework of the regulations laid down in Article
20 herein.
Note. The peddling card shall be issued by
the local Department of Commerce and be valid for one year from the date
ofissuance.
During the one-year validity period of the peddling card, the holders may export, without deputing a proxy, permissible goods, or those authorized for export under a "general approval", to the country or countries neighbouring their place of abode, with due regard to the relevant regulations. In return for goods so exported, they may import and clear for their own use, permissible or conditional goods from the same countries, or from Free Trade- Industrial Zones or Special Protected Zones by obtaining necessary license as set forth in the tables annexed to the Export-Import Regulations. Such imports shall be subject to the payment of customs duty and commercial benefit tax. The list of goods importable in this manner shall be prepared and promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce.
Iranian workers and nationals employed abroad
who hold an employment certificate from the Labour Attache of the Islamic
Republic of Iran in the country of their residence, or the Ministry of Labour
& Social Affairs may import and clear industrial machinery, tools and
primary materials with the exception of items contained in the following list,
up to an annual value ceiling ofRls. twenty million (20,000,000), by securing a
permit from the Labour Attache, or the Ministry of Labour & Social Affairs.
These goods may be imported through all ports in the country, or through Free
Trade-Industrial Zones, or Especial Protected Customs Zones, subject to the
payment of the applicable customs duty and commercial benefit tax. Such imports
may benefit from commercial benefit tax exemption of 40% in the case of
machinery and 20% in the case of primary materials, and imported without
remittance abroad of foreign exchange, presentation of Commercial Card, or
import licensing set forth in the tables appendixed to the Export-lmport
Regulations, with due regard to other relevant regulations.
Presentation of the employment certificate
and permit from the Labour Attache, or the Ministry of Labour & Social
Affairs shall be sufficient for the clearance, and the presence in person of the
holder of the said certificate shall not be necessarily required.
Note 1. Iranian workers and nationals
employed abroad who are covered by this Article may deputize the cooperative
company of workers employed abroad or in its absence, other persons to carry out
the importation on their behalf.
Note 2. Goods imported by the aforesaid workers and Iranian employed abroad, through other ports of entry, or in excess of the ceiling specified in this Article, shall be subject to the general regulations of the country.
Machinery, tools and primary materials unauthorized for importation by Iranian workers employed abroad:
1.
Sheet-fedprintingmachine
2.
Printing machines forplastics
3.
Automatic-cream machines
4.
Gold-foil printing machines for binding
5.
Balancing machines, repair shop type
6.
Multitillers
7.
Rototillers
8. Heat exchanger
9.
Electric sewing machine, domestic type
10.
Machines for making wooden doors
11.
Wood turning machines
12.
Miniloaders
13.
Ditchers
14.
Steam boilers, cast-iron boilers, heat exchangers, etc.
15. Drier for cereals, forage,
and vegetables (stationary and mobile)
16. Slaughterhouse machinery
for livestock and poultry
17. Machinery and equipment for
preparing livestock and poultry feed
18. Poultry incubators and
equipment
19. Forage harvesting
machinery, including choppers, balers and mowers
20. Self-propelled forage
choppers
21. Shakers, sorting an(l
packaging equipment for fruits
22. Processing machines of
various types
23. Motorpumps and electropumps
of various types
24. Air compressors and vacuum
pumps of various types
25. Pumps of various types
26. Viscometer
27. Autoclaves ofvarious types
28. Percussion and hydraulic
presses; shears and guillotines of various types
29. Briquetting presses; pipe
and bar benders and shears for bars
30. Leather dressing and
finishing machinery
31. Sandblasting and
shotblasting machines
32. Sausage stuffmgmachinery
33. Industrial laundry machines
of various types
34. Shrinkwrap equipment
35. Three-phase electromotors
up to 30 hp
36. Dyeing equipment for cloth
and yarn
37. Carpet producing machine
38. Cloth weaving machine,
except for airjet and waterjettypes
39. Various kinds of
electromotors gearbox single and variable-spead
40. Truck-mounted cranes of
various types
41. Industrial and
constructional escalators and elevators of various types
42. Mobile cranes, less than 30
tonnes
43. Flour and cereals
processing machinery
44. Freon compressors
45. Stone cutting machines
46. Seed planters and row
seeders of various types
47. Rakes and cultivators
48. Sprayers of various. types,
(motorized knapsack, wheel-barrow, hand-borrow and tractor-mounted).
49. Furrowers
50. Potato planters and
harvesters
51. Pistachio nut processing
machines
52. Dikers
53. Trailorsof various kinds
54. Flame torches
55. Disks ofvarious types
56. Levelers
57. Post hole diggers
58. Threshers of various types
59. Rice polishing equipment
61.
Plate grinders
62.
Ripsaw
63. Various kinds of universal
milling machines, horizontal or vertical
64. Radial drilling machines
65. Column-type drilling
machines
66. Bench grinders, flat
grinders and grinding wheels
67. Open-end and ring wrenches
68. Pliers, needle-nose pliers,
phasemetres, screwdrivers, locking plier wrenches, and adjustable wrenches of
various kinds
69. All kinds of faucets and
fixtures
70. Various kinds of
non-electrical lift trucks
71.
Plastic injection machines ofvarious kinds
72.
Single-phase electromotors up to 4kw
73. Various kinds of tractors
between 50 and 100hp
74. Ploughs, including one-way
and two-wayploughs
75. Radioactive materials