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A meeting was held on reviewing the development plan of domestic production capabilities with the view on exports and 11 billion dollar increase to support it.
According to ILNA quoting the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, Reza Rahmani, the program deputy director of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, referring to the decrease in imports and saving foreign currency, said, “In meeting with Ministry deputies we reached a common concept that we domestically produce some of the imported goods of last year amounting to 11 billion USD.”
Mention the objectives of this plan, he added, “Creating employment and eliminating unemployment, booming domestic industries, preventing the outflow of foreign currency from the country, continuing and increasing current production, exporting goods and bringing foreign currencies, challenging the sanctions, impaction on the other countries by creating consuming market are the targets that we follow in this great national plan.”
Referring to the quantitative objectives outlined in the plan, he further added, “The objectives of the plan are to achieve an increase of 700 million USD in textile production, 400 million USD in apparel production, 100 million USD in the production of leather goods, 150 million USD in the production of wood and wooden goods, 100 million USD in the production of furniture and other artifacts, and 250 million USD in the production of paper and paper products.”
According to Rahmani, other objectives of the plan are to achieve an increase of 2 billion USD in the production of chemicals, 700 million USD in the production of rubber and plastic, 600 million USD in the production of non-metal minerals, 1.8 billion USD in the production of basic products, and 600 million USD in the production of fabricated metal.
The other objectives, Rahmani referred to, were to increase 450 million USD in the production of machinery, equipment and household appliances, 150 million USD in the production of office and accounting equipment, 250 million USD in the production of electrical machinery and devices, 200 million USD in the field of radio, television, and other communication devices, 1.55 billion USD in the production of vehicles and other transportation equipment, and 100 million USD in the production of food industries.
The deputies, general managers of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade expressed their positive and negative points and determined the strategies to achieve these objectives in the meeting of discussing the plan.