Head of Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce says the trade between Iran and Switzerland has grown 100 percent, adding that with reducing tax, this volume will definitely increase.
The United States has reportedly agreed in principle to partial release of some $7 billion in Iranian assets that South Korean banks have frozen in line with Washington’s inhumane economic sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic.
President of Iran-Swiss Chamber of Commerce Mr. Sharif Nezam Mafi says Iran will face the problem for purchasing of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine out of the Swiss humanitarian trade agreement (SHTA), adding that the SHTA has been launched for this purpose and it will need no joining the FATF.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to host his Swiss counterpart next Monday, during a two-day visit by the latter to mark the 100th anniversary of Switzerland’s diplomatic presence in Iran that is also meant to address bilateral, regional, and international issues.
A Swiss pharmaceutical company has completed the first transaction under a new humanitarian trade channel with Iran, the government in Bern said on Monday.
Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce President, Sharif Nezam-Mafi told ILNA that the Trump administration uses Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) as one of its propaganda tools.
Addressing the International Monetary Fund, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdol Nasser Hemmati said that the loan could be channeled directly into the EU’s INSTEX trade vehicle and the SHTA, a financial channel run by the Swiss government urging that the present time is the time to act."
The Chairman of Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce, Sharif Nezam-Mafi said “The activation of Switzerland’s financial channel depends on the actions of the Central Bank of Iran.”
Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce President, Sharif Nezam-Mafi announced that companies interested in the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) must not necessarily be owned by the Swiss Federation.
Swiss ambassador to Tehran Markus Leitner said that we had extensive contacts with Iranian, American authorities and also Swiss banks to launch and secure the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA).
