The Study of Iranian Trade Protective Policy and its Comparison with Main Trade Partners

Today,most of protective policies would be limited and defined under certain framework as a country join to WTO. Under WTO regulation,tariff is the most principal accepted tools of protection.Ignorance of the necessity to have a detailed and comprehensive study about an optimum tariff regime and its effects on economic variables will incur to unstable and unpredictable tariff regime, which in turn, incur to economic instability (national production, employment,and economic instability).One of the main reasons of tariff fluctuations in Iran is the lack of national agreement on industrial policy and preferences. In this article, we study the role of protective policies in economics literature and the ways they are calculated; then we, specifically, refer to protective trade policies (both accepted and prohibited under WTO agreements).Reviewing the history of tariff and non-tariff policies of Iran and comparing tariff regime of this country with those of its main trade partners, we conclude the main problems and challenges of its trade protective policy.