The government’s new decision to reduce the import license for IT goods by 85% has once again disrupted this market and caused protests by technology businessmen.
With the imposition of new restrictions for placing orders for IT products that started on December 19, technology businessmen have protested this situation. The head of Tehran Computer Technologists Union says that in the last months of the year, when the demand of companies for purchases increased, the application of these restrictions has reduced the supply of goods to the market. In this situation, businessmen say that if the restrictions on the import of IT items continue, many companies will go bankrupt and close down, and the economic actors in this area will be forced to transfer their capital to neighboring countries.
“Items of IT traders rot in the customs and the customs does not allow the clearance of these goods to their owners.” Khabaronline quoted Mohammad Reza Farji Tehrani, the head of the Tehran Computer Technologists Union as saying: “IT traders faced a new problem and recently the import license for all categories has been reduced by 85%.”
According to Faraji Tehrani, the Ministry of Security has limited the entry of IT items, which are difficult to enter the country under these embargo conditions. While businessmen place orders for people through their foreign companies for the most up-to-date items in the world, suddenly the order limit of most businessmen for IT goods in Iran has been limited.
By applying such restrictions, the government creates inconsistencies for these economic operators, which discourages them from continuing. The discouragement of importers and the migration of their funds to third countries is the other side of the story.
These stonings and disrupting businessmen’s activities will cause the bankruptcy of large IT companies, and finally the smoke will reach the eyes of the government. This type of hasty decision has heavy consequences. Its first consequences are the entry of smuggled items into the country and the departure of foreign currency from the country, which increases the fluctuation of the currency and the price of goods in the market. Another negative consequence of this decision is the bankruptcy of members of the technologists’ guild. In these cases, the importing companies have to adjust their manpower to save their company, which will fuel the unemployment of the youth in the country.
– Mohammad Reza Farji Tehrani, Head of Tehran Computer Technologists Union
He continues: “IT importers, in order to import the latest items of this industry in the country under sanctions, are represented by the parent companies and they pull the feet of their business partners such as Dubai, Bahraini and Qatari partners to order goods, but the government imposes such restrictions. It creates inconsistencies for these economic actors, which discourages them from continuing on the path. Of course, the discouragement of importers and the migration of their funds to third countries is one side of the story. “Unfortunately, such interactions eventually cause discredit to Iranian businessmen in other countries.”
According to Faraji Tehrani, the consumption of IT items is on the rise in all countries; From schools and research organizations to other service areas, they are in dire need of IT items, and now the imposition of restrictions causes the updated items to be imported into the country at a staggering cost.
