ARAS Free Trade – The industrial zone is located in the northwest of Iran, a border area with the Republic of Azerbaijan and with Armenia, in the neighbouring Armenia region, and has established very good relations and interactions with these Eurasian countries. The ARAS Free Zone has over 200 active industrial and production units that play a leading role in promoting the economy, particularly the country’s free zone. Appropriate opportunities for producing agricultural and horticultural products within the zone are paved, with most of the products currently being exported to the Russian Federation. Additionally, the ARAS Free Zone also invests heavily in the production of distinct energy, such as solar energy.
Thanks to its excellent geographical status, the ARAS Free Zone has established very good interactions and cooperation with these countries in the fields of trade and economy, and has outstanding results in the fields of logistics and co-production and investment activities. I’m getting it. The area was expanded to 51,000 hectares on December 4, 2008 under a new statute of the Ministerial Committee, including the towns of Jolfa and parts of the towns of Caylival. This approved area of connected parts has increased the main area from 9,700 hectares to 20,500 hectares, and for three detached home parts, the 51,000 hectares of ARA free zone, including part of Caval city with an area of 24,000 hectares. The entirety is totally 51,000 hectares. (Lou) and customs (Iran-Armenian border) with an area of 6,100 hectares and an area of 240 hectares near the Kodafarindam in the Nordus district.
For more details, we contacted the deputy CEO of ARAS Free Zone due to economic development and investment issues. Here is:
To begin with a speech, he said that the ARAS Free Zone has over 200 industrial and production units. Suitable opportunities for the production of agricultural and horticultural products are paved, with most of their products currently being exported to the Russian Federation. Additionally, the ARAS Free Zone also invests in the production of distinct energy, such as solar energy.
The adjutant refers to Jolfa Township, 38°39′ to 39°2 in the north latitude as a narrow strip of 45°17′ to 46°31′ in the east longitude, 38°39′ to 39°2′. It said it is located in the northwest of eastern Azarbaijan, between them. The northern border of the state. From the north we head to the Aras River, the Republic of Naktiban, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The township covers an area of 1670.31 square kilometers and covers the area of Kayleebal Township to the east and Marand and Ahar to the south. On average, the width of the Jolfa Township is 17 km, and its length is 100 km. Jorfa City is the town’s capital, located 135 km from northwest of Tabriz and 65 km north of Malaland. Jorfa is one of the smallest cities in the state, covering 1670.31 square kilometers, with only 3.4 of the total area of the state, ranking 12th in this regard.
In regards to political divisions, the Jolfah Township consists of two districts: the Central District and the Siyarud, and five rural districts: West Dizmah, Noyeh, Arashi, Daran and Shojah. According to 2004 statistics, there are 73,219 villages in Jolfa Township.
Based on Resolution 530820 T/20708, passed through the Iranian Cabinet on June 28, 2005, the ARAS Free Zone covered approximately 9,700 hectares of land. However, according to another resolution adopted by a respectable cabinet on December 4, 2008, the boundary of the zone would cover parts of the two counties, namely about 51,000 hectares, including Jolfa and Khoda Afarin. has been expanded to.
The competitive advantages of investment
ØHuman resources (specialists and cheap labor)
ØInexpensive energy
ØInvestment Security
Ø Cheap warehouse
Ø Land
ØExemption from customs duties and commercial profits for importing raw materials and machines
ØExemptions from customs fees and commercial profits for imports of goods produced in the zone into other parts of Iran under the Value Added Act.
The benefits of investment customs
ØReduce CIF value by up to 15% of the CIF value of goods imported to the mainland through the free zone of the trade industry
ØIncrease the volume of imported goods and free zones up to $3,000,000,000
ØMinimum time required for assessment and elimination procedures
Ø Possibility of importing goods through foreign, domestic shipping, till car nets, etc.
Ø Possibility of transferring goods by train and connecting them to overseas lines.
ØAccept warranty for ejecting goods from the zone.
ØSeparation of invoices for discharge warehouses (absolute discharge, transportation, export, etc.
ØContracts with the goods owner for the import and export of goods from production units within the zone.
ØDischarge fixed items on the truck within possible time.
ØIssuing a warehouse bill that can be negotiated at the request of the product owner.
ØStop services for products available at customs in the free zone. Double the expected time for customs on the mainland. The service time for stopped service for produced products is endless.
Legal Benefits of Investment
Ø Take advantage of the benefits contained in the value-added method.
ØTwenty years of tax exemption for various economic activities since the date of operation.
Ø Customs fees and commercial profit exemptions for imports of raw materials and machinery.
ØProduced goods are exported overseas using minimal procedures.
ØFreedom to import goods except in conflict with Islamic law.
Ø Guarantees the capital of foreign investors from nationalization and expropriation.
ØFull hands of foreign investors for any economic activity.
Company registration by ØARAS Free Trade and Industrial Zone Organization.
Ø Possibility of 100% foreign investment without Iranian partnership
ØVissa-free entrance.
Ø Possibility of using foreign experts.
ØARAS Free Trade and Industrial Zone Organizations issue of employment licenses for aliens.
ARAS Free Zone Infrastructure
Railway network
The Jorfa Tabriz Railway was the first and only electric railway to be built 100 years ago, linking the Arras free zone with Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, the Black Sea, Turkey and Europe from the north. CIS countries from the south and from the east. The Jolfa-Tabriz Road Network links the city’s entrance and exit points via Jolfa-Nordooz and Khoda Afrin with the Autonomous Republic of Nakicheban, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
ARAS airport is currently under construction of the ARAS Free Zone, 120 km from Tabriz Airport, and is 35 km from Nakhtiban Airport.
Energy
Currently, oil and gas-containing energy sources are fully available in the area, and the construction of a 500 mW power plant is being carried out by the private sector. This power plant will become the main supplier of energy in the future zone.
communication
Communications infrastructure and communications facilities are fully installed in the zone. The required branches are provided in line with current needs and ready to be given to applicants for use in planning the construction of the zone’s data center ICD, SAP, PAP, and SAP Given that legal restrictions on the PAP, and PSTN mainland are not practiced here, the relative advantages of the ARAS free zone allow access to domestic communications infrastructure and to the mid-East and Western international. Therefore, considering establishing and expanding ICT in zones, we plan to turn the zone into pilot case studies to the pilot case study of the national project of ICT in line with the realization of electronic zones. I’m doing it.
Translated and edited by Sm Ahmadi al-e Hashem