Grumbling about cheap Chinese imports has risen to a new level with even a senior Pasdar officer now saying such goods should be blocked from Iranian markets.
Gen. Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Pasdaran, was quoted by the Fars news agency as telling a gathering of bazaar merchants, "We must not allow our markets to wholesale colthing be filled with foreign goods, particularly products from Chinese companies that have hurt our economy."
Iranian industrialists have complained in recent years about the growing volume of cheap Chinese consumer goods flooding Iranian retail establishments. They have only occasionally gotten help from the government, which has blocked some Clip in hair extensions imports.
Roozonline last week said that an unnamed government official had claimed that such imports--not further defined--had been reduced by 40 percent, but had not given detailed statistics or explained how and when the cuts were made.
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Fars quoted Naghdi as lauding the bazaar merchants and speaking of the need to protect them. However, it is not the bazaar merchants--wholesalers and retailers--who have been complaining about Chinese goods, but rather small industries that produce consumer products.
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Officially, China only ranks 10th as a source of imports. But it is believed to be the main source of small and cheap consumer items, China's specialty in the global market.
Some commentators assert that the Ahmadi-nejad Administration has intentionally opened the Iranian market to Chinese goods as a way to secure China's support for Iran's nuclear program. But the total Iranian market for China was just $6 billion last year, an inconsequential part of China's exports.
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