A mirage called self-sufficiency “Corona vaccine production”
A series of beliefs are prevalent among us Iranians, which are at best one-sided, and half of the truth, but in many cases they are fundamentally incorrect. one of
They believe in self-sufficiency and consider it a national goal.
We have witnessed many times, that officials have declared the desire of product self-sufficiency as a great national goal and proudly promised to realize it. Wheat and cars have been among the goods whose importation has been mentioned as a historical achievement. The last point is the national victory of the self-sufficiency in the production of the Corona vaccine, which these days the authorities have proudly announced that there is no need to import it.
You may not believe it, but self-sufficiency is the biggest injustice to the consumer. The first step of self-sufficiency is to prevent the import of that product and to force the consumer to use domestic products. And the calamity starts exactly from this point. The consumer is deprived of the right to choose international high-quality products instead of cheaper ones, and his choice is limited to low-quality and expensive domestic products. .
Let’s not go far. Automobile manufacturing and wheat production are two clear examples of the disaster of self-sufficiency. For sixty years, due to the support of domestic industries, the import of foreign cars from Iran has been prohibited or with very high customs duties. The result of this policy is forcing Iranians to buy low-quality domestically made cars at prices many times higher than Japanese or European quality cars. And on the other hand, paying thousands of billions of tomans for the loss of the automobile industry.
Self-sufficiency means that the consumer must buy Pride, Pikan and Samand at an exorbitant price, as well as pay the cost of keeping them standing. The self-sufficiency of wheat from cars is also disastrous. It is gradually becoming clear that the insistence on wheat self-sufficiency is one of the main factors of the water crisis. Self-sufficiency in vaccine production and preventing foreign vaccine entry may repeat the same car story. The choice of the Iranian consumer should be limited to Pride and Samand with several times the price of Mercedes Benz, Toyota and Peugeot.
Rationally and logically, a country can compete with Pfizer and AstraZeneca in the production of vaccines, both in terms of quality and price, which has previously been able to compete in the international arena in the production of a simple children’s bicycle. Let’s say that the idea of self-sufficiency and building a fence around oneself has been obsolete and abandoned for years.
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