IRAN REDUCES TAXES ON SOME IMPORTS FROM AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA

Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran East Azarbayjan Provincial TV
Feb 15 2009
Iran

People importing products via the Nurduz and Jolfa custom checkpoints
[on border with Armenia and Azerbaijan respectively] will pay 15 per
cent less taxes.

[Keshtiban, the head of the Jolfa custom checkpoint] The Jolfa and
Nurduz custom checkpoints have been exempted from the 15 per cent
commercial profit tax. This exemption applies to the goods being
imported into the country from Naxcivan [in Azerbaijan Republic] and
Armenia. However, the exemption is not applied to clothes, textile,
cars and rice, and internal and external transit goods.