The first edition of Iran’s international high-level Symposium on Industrial and Trade Policies Promoting Exports and Developing Employment opened today at the international Conference Center in Tehran and was attended by President Hassan Rouhani.
The two-day event will facilitate frank and open high-level discussions on the need for a package of industrial and trade policies complementary to the macroeconomic measures adopted by the government that can ensure longer-term, export-oriented, and pro-employment growth in Iran.
It is specifically hoped that international experiences will impact Iran’s economic policy making in major ways at this crucial time.
Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, President's Chief of Staff Mohammad Nahavandian and a number of forging guests active in the field of industry and trade are participating in the event.
The symposium will cover a wide range of topics including: future prospects for global and regional commerce, manufacturing, and exports; Iran’s oil-based economic development experiences and their dampening effect on its industrialization trajectory; and options for industrial transformation of Iran in the post-sanctions era.
The event follows a two-fold purpose of first, promoting discussions on integrated industrial and trade policies for sustainable, export-oriented, and pro-employment growth in Iran, and second, providing industrial and trade policy suggestions that will contribute to the preparation of the Sixth Economic, Social, and Cultural Development Plan of Iran.
Five workshops with a focus on industries and trades are also scheduled to be held on the sidelines of the conference which will last until October 11, 2015.
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