ناكارآمدي صنايع فولاد ايران و نياز كشور به فولاد وارداتي، از ديد يك روزنامه نگار

فريدون زرنگار، مصاحبه با محمدرضا باليده <ENGLISH><TITLE>Iranian Steel's Failure to Compete in Domestic Market: A Journalist Reviews IRI's Macro Economy Policies</TITLE><AUTHOR>Ferydoun Zarnegar, interview with M.H. Balideh, Tehran</AUTHOR><TEXT>Figures released officially indicate that, more than two decades after heavy investments to expand Iranian steel industry, Iran continues to import more than 4 million tons of steel from abroad. Since a few years ago, IRI decided not to prevent Iranian consumer’s access to cheaper and better quality imports through unjustified protection of domestic industries which cannot compete in quality and price with foreign producers, says the Tehrani journalist, Mohammad-Reza Balideh, in an interview with RFE/RL. Balideh says, many industrial development projects were implemented without any economic or technical justification. Large industrial complexes which were established with heavy foreign exchange investment by IRI during the past two decades to produce commodities such sugar, steel and paper, ended up producing inferior products at much higher costs than the imports. Balideh says IRI does not have any industrial development strategy, and the advice of economic experts and experienced managers have been systematically ignored by a few top level IRI officials who manage Iran’s macro economy policies. </TEXT></ENGLISH>