Wheat and products, Imports and Exports
FAO publishes this commodity's food-balance elements in two domains with different methodologies (historic 1961-2013 vs current 2010-2023); they disagree materially where they overlap, so both are kept as separate labelled series rather than spliced.
Related_Laws
Laws related to this measure. Correlation = how closely this law tracks this measure's story. Expected causation = how strongly we would expect it to have moved the line. Neither is a claim of proof.
2003CorrelationExpected causationExecutive Bylaw of Clause (Kh) of Note 19 of the National Budget Act for 1382 (2003)
Issued in 2003, this bylaw set up a wheat-for-flour licensing scheme under which qualified domestic mills could import wheat meeting government quality standards and were required to export an equivalent quantity of flour, with the Grain Trading Company of Iran coordinating quality controls and delivery.
Why this link: This 2003 implementing bylaw for a clause of the FY1382 budget law set procedures for importing wheat for milling and re-exporting flour, a narrow trade-facilitation scheme layered onto Iran's wheat-import and milling industry.
Caveat: A narrow, single-year procedural bylaw for one budget clause; Iran's wheat trade volumes are driven far more by harvest size, the guaranteed purchase price, and broader import policy than by this scheme.
Lag: Effects, if any, would be confined to the trade flows of the year the bylaw was in force.