Trade in Transport Services: Export Share & Values (2005-2024)_

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.

1. 1950CorrelationExpected causationCabotage Bylaw

   This bylaw regulates cabotage, the transport of goods between domestic ports.

   Why this link: Foundational cabotage regulation reserving domestic coastal shipping trade to Iranian-flag vessels, part of the long-standing legal backdrop for the national merchant fleet and maritime transport-services trade.

   Caveat: Dates to 1950, decades before the available fleet/trade-services series begin in 2005; any link to today's data reflects the persistence of a legal framework, not a traceable causal event.

   Lag: Multi-decade, structural
2. 1996CorrelationExpected causationAct on the Transport and Transit of Foreign Goods through the Territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran

   Passed in 1996, this law regulates the transit of foreign goods through Iranian territory, exempting transiting cargo from customs duties, commercial-profit tax, and other levies (while it remains subject to service and handling fees), and establishing bonded-warehousing and guarantee-deposit rules for transit carriers.

   Why this link: This law governs the transport and transit of foreign goods across Iranian territory, establishing the legal and fee regime for transit trade, a real named channel into customs clearance efficiency and Iran's exports of transport/transit services.

   Caveat: Transit volumes are heavily driven by regional conflict, sanctions on neighbouring routes and Iran's own sanctions exposure, so the law's specific contribution to the plotted logistics or transport-services series cannot be cleanly isolated from these larger geopolitical drivers.

   Lag: Ongoing effect from enactment (1996) through the transit regime it established.