The Relationship between Development Plans and Policy Making in Foreign Commercial Section

Importance of the relationship between development plans and policy making in commercial sector is reinforced this year that is policy making year for next five years. By studying the previous commercial policies (the first to fourth development plans) and the next plan (by using general policies of the fifth development plans), we can take strategy.This article surveys the relationship between policy making in commercial sector and economic growth. By studying these four development plans Acts, Iranian commercial policies are divided into three sections: exports, imports and infrastructures.Results of studies show that the change of imports substitution trade policy of the first and second development plans into exports development policy of the third and forth development plans indicate good trend of Iranian planning system. Some of these policies are repeated in next plans without changes, reforms, and giving reasons for their unsuccessfulness. Some policies werent implemented and other transferred or changed into the standing orders or certain laws were ratified for them that all of them shows to discuss it better.