Imagine a situation ranging from food and medicine to health care and home appliances in bulk, with no label on its expiration date, no label and no The name of its manufacturer’s factory. Everything sinks into anonymity and sheer address and deviates from the standards of production. While for many of us this may seem unthinkable, the unprecedented price tag of “cardboard” and “label” does not make this picture much impossible.

The packaging industry is dependent on cardboard, and according to the manager of the cardboard manufacturer Farangar Arya, the price of the product has risen more than 2 percent compared to last week. Mahmoud Pishali said the most important problem facing the printing house with 4 staff was the extremely high cost of cardboard and other primary consumables, saying: “For example, last week, the price of cardboard suddenly went up 2% without happening and no one was responsible. Be it. “

The printmaker, whose industry is dependent on buying paper, goes on to say, “We can’t keep up with the expensive sellers because if we tell someone you’ve sold expensive, next time it says I have no sex!”

According to Mahmoud Pishali, “The international price of cardboard today is $ 7 (seven tenths of a kilo), but here we get $ 6,000 a day.” “When they said we were opening warehouses last week, Cardboard prices fell 2 percent, while they had climbed 2 percent before! Kiwi carton became 2 thousand tomans 1 kilo and then 5,000 tomans were sold on the market. “Pre-Ali said that” the distribution system is paper and no one talks about cardboard. ” In industry, it is more necessary for the country than paper. But there is no talk of cardboard in the Majlis and the Ministry of Culture. While our packaging industry is completely dependent on cardboard. “According to the packaging maker, which is the largest customer of packaging customers,” pharmacists, teasers, and … have all reduced their production because cardboard is expensive and does not consume cardboard at this price. “Amin Kavousi, director of the Parsian Label printing house, which specializes in producing all kinds of labeled paper and film in general, says Label. That is, we do not have a company in Iran that can produce this family of goods. “Only in the field of adhesives do we have a few manufacturing companies whose raw materials come from overseas.” According to the printer, their first problem with label production is in the field of import and order registration, which is directly with the Ministry of Health. Kawosi explains: “Our business has been damaged by the numerous filters they have put in place and the laws that are changing every day, meaning that new rules and filters are created that the importer is unaware of and that he will be informed of the time. have given. What happened last year was that for nearly six months, our importers and producers were struggling to get in the long queues and find the way to imports. But in the end, it took more than a month for the ordering site to close, and then it took us exactly 6 months to figure out how to do it. As a result, fewer goods entered the country. Of course, the government probably achieved its goal because it wanted less currency. But paper and raw materials such as spare parts and consumables for printers and … were imported less as a result, demand was higher than supply, and prices went higher; keep in mind that the market is doing its job. ” The packaging and labeling industry says, “So the first problem is that the ordering that needs to be done in one day takes 2 days and 2 weeks. The second problem that labels and manufacturers face, like the rest of the industry, is working capital. The most important reason is the increase in the exchange rate. “He continued:” The currency in the free market last year was three thousand tomans, now tripled and the printer cannot afford it. Because not only the raw materials but also the costs have increased and we have difficulty in providing this working capital to the banks; Most banks avoid borrowing factories and machinery and accept residential property, apartments, and things to be cashed out faster; in fact banks, not our profit and loss trading partner, are our only profit partner. ” Referring to issues with government departments and, in particular, VAT, as a third problem, he says, “Simply put, we are not responsible for collecting taxes for the government. Our product is a label; labeling or packaging is not, in itself, a finished product that you buy at the store. An industrial piece is produced on a label. So all of our factors lie in the finished price of the product on the label, and with all these costs the price of that product is determined. After the last loop they can get this. If they cannot control whether or not all of these circles are subject to taxation, that is not our problem, it is their own problem that must be resolved. The situation is now that we are paying the VAT that we have not yet received from the customer. Even in the case of dividers, its length is shorter than we received from the customer