After these meetings and with the follow-up of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Free Trade-Industrial and Special Economic Zones, the international service of the Sada and Vasima news agency reported, quoting Al-Mayadin TV channel: "Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, approved a law for the approval of the additional protocol of the free zone agreement between the Eurasian Union" And Iran signed.
According to this report, this agreement takes up the basic rules of trade between the Eurasian Economic Union and Iran and comes as close as possible to the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
It defines the obligations of the parties to reduce or eliminate customs duties and other non-tariff barriers for certain goods in order to encourage economic and commercial cooperation between the two parties.
It should be noted that the Eurasian Economic Union is an economic union whose members are mainly the countries of the northern region of Eurasia in Eastern Europe.
It should be noted that Saeed Mohammad, adviser to the president and secretary of the Supreme Council for Free Trade, Industrial and Special Economic Zones, has called the creation of a joint free zone between Iran and Russia one of the future objectives. of the Supreme Council. Council Secretariat and stressed: According to plans, this important thing will be realized in the near future.