Iran Customs is drafting an executive instruction to speed clearance, cut duplicate procedures and ease truck movement at borders, its head said.
Foroud Asgari, speaking on the sidelines of an Iran Chamber meeting, said customs facilitations were approved during the war period and signed by the President on 16 Mehr; the new instruction will apply them uniformly nationwide.
The core aim is preventing goods from stopping at entry and exit points. For exports, assessment will use inland customs capacity so shipments are not halted again at borders. Risk management will guide controls: higher-risk cargo goes to docks for checks, while other goods use a green lane based on mutual trust and seals affixed by customs of origin. Controls should match each shipment’s risk level, Asgari said.
On imports, agencies involved in permitting will face fixed deadlines and must answer for delays. Customs will track processing and permit times and report agencies’ performance to authorities. The instruction also targets order registration, repeated sampling and unnecessary rework.
Asgari said border meetings were held with Armenian and Azerbaijani customs chiefs, and Turkmenistan’s customs head visited this week; counterparts pledged cooperation to raise truck transit capacity. Operational visits to key border posts identified problems, many raised with the economy minister and partly resolved.
