Iran has agreed to import tea from Sri Lanka to settle an old debt owed by the country for imports of oil from Iran.

Iran�s deputy trade minister Alireza Peymanpak said on Wednesday that he had reached good agreements on the issue during a trip to Sri Lanka earlier this week.

Peymanpak said that the barter system will allow the settlement of around $250 million owed by Sri Lanka to Iran for oil imports that date back to nearly a decade ago.
�Fortunately we reached a written solution to return this money and its interest in the form of goods like tea,� said the official.
Reports from Sri Lanka said that the tea barter agreement had been signed between Peymanpak and, Sri Lanka�s Minister of Plantation Ramesh Pathirana.

 

Source: Press TV