Trade Development Organization Updates Trader Rankings: No Exports in the Past 5 Years Means a Zero Base Export Ceiling

Iran's Trade Promotion Organization announced an update of trader rankings, in a notice Mehr reported on 10 November 2026 (19 Aban 1405), and asked traders to review the new edition of their rank, import and export credit ceilings, indicators and permitted activity fields on the comprehensive trade system. The organization said the way the import ceiling is calculated is unchanged from earlier editions and only the indicators were updated.

On the export ceiling, a trader with no exports in the past 5 years gets a base ceiling of zero, and exporting is conditional on lodging a valid guarantee. A trader with export performance whose export-currency repatriation rate on matured obligations is 0 percent falls under a system restriction and gets no export ceiling. The key determinants of the ceiling are the calculated rank, export performance and the trader's capital; export performance is measured as the higher of total exports over the last 3 years and the maximum exports in a single year out of the past 5. Traders can choose their activity fields only once per ranking edition.