The value of export from Khorasan Razavi province in the northeast of Iran rose six percent during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, a provincial official announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammad-Ali Amir-Fakhrian, the head of the foreign trade office of the province\u2019s Industry, Mining and Trade Department, said that commodities worth $646 million were exported from Khorasan Razavi in the six-month period of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official said that the export also indicates a 14-percent growth in terms of weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steel and iron bars were the major exported items, followed by pistachio and saffron, Amir-Fakhrian said, and mentioned Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan as the main export destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As announced by the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the value of Iran\u2019s non-oil trade rose 47 percent during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year, as compared to the same period of time in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi said that Iran has traded 79.1 million tons of non-oil products worth $45 billion with other countries in the mentioned period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official put the six-month non-oil exports at 60 million tons valued at $21.8 billion, with a 61-percent rise in value and a 30-percent growth in weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IRICA head mentioned liquefied natural gas, methanol, polyethylene, semi-finished iron products, iron ingots, propane, urea, gasoline, iron rods and cathodes as the main exported products in the said time span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said major export destinations of the Iranian non-oil goods were China with about 14.8 million tons worth $6.5 billion, Iraq with 13.9 million tons worth $3.8 billion, Turkey with 7.2 million tons worth $2.3 billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with 5.8 million tons worth $2.2 billion, and Afghanistan with 2.5 million tons worth $1.0 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official further announced that Iran has imported 19.1 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $23.1 billion in the first six months of the present year, with a 37-percent growth in value and a 15-percent rise in weight year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mir-Ashrafi named cellphones, livestock corn, sunflower oil, barley, meal, wheat, soybeans, sugar, palm oil, and rice as the main imported commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Arab Emirates with 5.9 million tons of goods worth $7.3 billion was the top exporter to Iran in the said period, followed by China with 1.5 million tons of goods worth $5.0 billion, Turkey with 2.1 million tons worth $2.4 billion, and Switzerland with one million tons worth $900,000, the official stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the official, out of the total 19.1 million tons of goods imported into the country in the first six months of this year, 14.3 million worth $8.9 billion were basic goods, which constitutes 75 percent of the total imported goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IRICA head has announced that the value of Iran\u2019s non-oil trade stood at $73 billion in the past Iranian calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mir-Ashrafi has put the weight of non-oil trade at 146.4 million tons, and said that the figure shows a 25-million-ton annual decline, which is the result of sanctions and coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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