15th Session Resolutions of the Border Trade Working Group

Effective from

16 May 2026

Issued by

Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade

Reference

No. 7741203

The Trade Development Organization of Iran has communicated the resolutions adopted at the 15th session of the working group formed under Article 4 of the Law on Organizing and Supervising Border Trade (Kolbari and Boat Trade) and Creating Sustainable Employment for Border Residents. The session was held virtually on May 6, 2026, chaired by Dr. Dehghan Dehnavi, and the resolutions were formally communicated to the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, the Ministry of Intelligence, the Plan and Budget Organization, and the Special Representative of the President at the Central Headquarters for Combating Smuggling of Goods and Currency.

The resolutions cover several aspects of the border trade framework governed by the executive regulations of the underlying law. These include provincial programs and quotas for border trade, distribution of the second-year quota under the boat-trade (molvani) procedure, use of the capacity under Note 2 of Article 8 of the executive regulations, determination of a minimum value for goods handled under the porterage (kolbari) procedure, and setting of import quotas for the current year in line with previously issued Cabinet and working-group resolutions.

The session also addressed operational matters including requests to add or remove specific goods eligible for the porterage and boat-trade procedures, effective from July 22, 2026, watercraft eligible to participate in the boat-trade procedure based on assessments by the Central Headquarters for Combating Smuggling of Goods and Currency, and the list of authorized border markets (bazarcheh) by province and county through which goods may be registered under the porterage procedure.

On statistical registration, the working group set the import rate for the porterage procedure at 6 percent and specified that porterage quotas and related statistical registrations remain valid according to the schedules set out in the resolutions, with registrations expiring under the terms established for the current year.

Key Details

• Approval authority: Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade
• Responsible organization: Import and Export Regulations Office, Trade Development Organization of Iran
• Classification: Regulation
• Affected procedure: Statistical Registration
• Document number: 7741203
• Unique identifier: 405023098407
• Document date: May 16, 2026
• Publication date: May 20, 2026
• Effective date: May 16, 2026
• Expiration date: Not specified

This summary is provided for orientation only. The official Persian text issued by the relevant Iranian authority is the governing version.