A Brief Consideration of The Barriers of Trading In Qajar Period

The insecurity of both foreign and local trademen was always a basic problem in iran’s trading in Qajar period. Political influence of western countries on Iran caused protection of western trademen and their economical affairs by government and makes them secured. This happened when Iran failed in the second war with Russia and Turkmanchai treaty was concluded in 1828. According to one of the materials of the treaty, Iran’s government was undertaken to receive only 5 percent of the tariffs taken from imported and exported goods by the Russian trademen. The reason why Russians inserted this material was the terribly chaotic conditions of Iran’s government in taking teriffs and Russians who were aware of the conditions clarifies their duties by doing that. In the second half of 19th century, English and other foreigners could gradually gain the same credit for their own subjects and finally the barriers and problems stood still and keep the Iranian trademen in difficult situations. In this essay some main barriers of trading growth in Iran and the trading strategies will be briefly considered as a plan for a deep and elaborated research.