Acceso usuarios
Irán
In the nineteenth century, the tobacco product, due to the popularity of its usage among Iranian and the Ottomans people, formed an essential component of the two countries economy, so that most merchants from the two countries, especially the Iranian merchants were engaged in this lucrative business. Since the most of Iran's tobacco production was exported to the Ottoman provinces, the trade balance of this valuable commodity has always been positive for Iran. But the Ottoman state granted the monopoly of importing tobacco in favor of Tonbak Company in 1875 and the trade agreements between the Iranian state and that company entered a new stage in the trade relations between the two countries, which in this paper, we will examine the relationship between the Tonbak Company and Iran, Tobacco traders, as well as the analysis of Iran-Ottoman concessions and its implications.
