By Trend
Director of the National Iranian Carpet Center says that a
bartering mechanism has been designed to maintain the export
markets for handmade carpets.
"In a mechanism designed to barter carpets with imported goods,
exporting countries to Iran will get carpets," Fereshteh Dastpak
said referring to US sanctions, Trend reports citing IRNA.
"Countries such as China could potentially be customers of
Iran's handmade carpets and enter the carpet bartering system," she
continued.
Pointing to the US sanctions against Iran and the suspension of
carpet exports to that country, she says, "Given the US market has
always been the destination for 30 percent of Iran’s handmade
carpets, with the help of NGOs, we are seeking to lift the carpet
sanctions."
Last year, 5,400 tons of Iranian handmade carpets worth $425
million were exported.
The United States is the largest handmade carpet market in the
world; last year, it imported $126 million worth carpets. Germany,
Lebanon, Britain and Japan are the most important export markets
for Iranian handmade carpets after the US.
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