Subsequently, in 1351, the construction and executive works of the development plan to reach the capacity of 1,900,000 tons of steel per year began with the construction of blast furnace number 2 and the development of various departments of agglomeration, coking, steelmaking, rolling, etc. And the construction operation of the cast iron complex was completed in 1357. Lack of raw materials See also: value chain, megacorporation, and vertical integration. In the past years, Isfahan Iron Smelter has faced a shortage of raw materials such as iron ore, concentrate, pellets, and coal, which has reduced the company’s production to half of its nominal capacity.
This problem refers to the export of these materials in raw form, and the reasons for this can be mentioned as follows: Absence of export and import tariffs proportional to the amount of added value of that product or substance; in this way, in most developed countries, in order to prevent raw sales and direct liquidity towards industries with higher added value, the export tariff of any material or product is directly related to the volume and weight of that product in relation to its value or added value, and the import tariff is the opposite. It is achieved; that is, the greater the mass and volume of a product compared to its value, a higher tax is imposed on its export and a small tax on its import.
