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Government undertakes to purchase from the Union during the validity of the
treatv the following goods : sugar, matches, cotton piece-goods, cement, black
metals, agricultural machinery and tools, industrial plant for the cleaning of
cotton and rice, equipment for silos (elevators, mills and electric plant) as well
as any other industrial and technical installations, so that the value of the goods
purchased by Iran may be equal to that of the purchases by the Soviet Union.
The contracts relative to the above-mentioned transactions will be concluded
by the Soviet Commercial Mission and the Iranian Ministry of Finance. Imports
and exports effected under the above arrangements have to be balanced at the end
of each Iranian economic year.
Besides the above specified transactions, the Soviet organisations may take
part in any adjudications for installations and materials required for Iranian
governmental institutions.
A list of quotas fixing the value of imports of certain goods from the Union
to Iran, showing the percentage of the total import quotas which will serve as a
basis for subsequent annual lists during the validity of the treaty, was published
with the text of the treaty. A copy of this list, to which have been added
remarks showing comparisons with last year's figures, is attached. It will be
noticed that no quotas are given for the following goods :—
(a) Cotton piece-goods : Monopoly of the Societe des Cotonnades.
(b) Silk-worm eggs: Monopoly of the Silk Share Company.
(c) Sugar : Government monopoly.
(d) Matches : Government monopoly.
The decreases in the quotas for oil products (rubrics 9, 43, 63, 71 and 72) are
interesting, and reveal the expansion of sales in Iran of the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company. The Soviets, trading on a barter system, are exempt from restrictions
relative to foreign exchange; nor do they have to produce export certificates before
being furnished with import licences—the list of reserved quotas serving as a
general licence.
Article 12 . The Soviet Union accords to Iran the free transit through Soviet
territory of natural and industrial products of Iran destined for other countries.
Iran can also re-export from the Soviet Union any unsold surplus of her exports
to the Union.
The transit is permitted through Soviet territory to Iran of the under
mentioned goods from countries with which the Union has a commercial treaty,
agreement or convention : —
(а) Machinery, tools and materials for factories, mills and agricultural enter
prises, and also for the construction and maintenance of buildings,
upkeep of road transport means of all sorts and for the needs of public
utility.
( б ) Medicaments of all sorts, surgical instruments and dental apparatus.
{c) Paper and printed matter.
(d) Silk-worm eggs.
(e) Tea.
(/) Lighting and heating apparatus.
(g) Bicycles, motor cycles, cars and lorries, accessories and spare parts.
Facilities will be afforded for the transit of non-commercial imports for the
Iranian Government of any merchandise with the exception of arms and
munitions.
Applications for the transit of orders of the Iranian Government from
countries having no commercial treaty, agreement or convention, will receive
benevolent consideration and all possible facilities will be accorded by the Soviet
Union.
The above arrangements will not affect the transit of parcels post to Iran
governed by the special convention of the 2nd August, 1929, which remains in
force. (In this connexion attention is invited to chapter XXII, 2, of the Tableau
general of the Customs Administration for the year June 1932-June 1933.