Iran registered a monthly non-oil trade balance of $650 million in the seventh Iranian calendar month Mehr (September 23-October 22), the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ruhollah Latifi put the monthly non-oil trade at 19.554 million tons worth $9.886 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The non-oil export was 15.187 million tons worth $5.268 billion, with an eight-percent rise in terms of value and a five-percent growth in terms of weight as compared to the same month of the past year, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Importing 5.852 million tons of non-oil goods worth $1.643 billion, Iraq was Iran\u2019s first export destination in the seventh month, followed by China, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official put the monthly non-oil import at 4.367 million tons worth $4.618 billion, with a 48-percent rise in terms of value, and a 64-percent growth in terms of weight on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
United Arab Emirates was the first source of import to Iran, by exporting 949,000 tons of commodities worth $1.291 billion, followed by China, Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany, he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, as previously announced by the IRICA head, the value of Iran\u2019s non-oil trade rose 43 percent during the first seven months 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 over 98 million tons of non-oil products worth $54.8 billion with other countries in the mentioned period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the IRICA head, the volume of trade in the mentioned period also grew by 16.5 percent in comparison to the figure for the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official put the seven-month non-oil exports at 75.2 million tons valued at $27.1 billion, with a 47-percent rise in value and 15-percent growth in weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mir-Ashrafi mentioned natural gas, methanol, polyethylene, semi-finished iron products, liquid propane, iron ingots, iron rods, urea, copper, and bitumen 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 16.9 million tons worth $7.7 billion, Iraq with 19.7 million tons worth $5.5 billion, Turkey with 11 million tons worth $7.4 billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with 6.6 million tons worth $2.6 billion, and Afghanistan with 2.8 million tons worth $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official further announced that Iran has imported 23.5 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $27.7 billion in the first seven months of the present year, with a 38-percent growth in value and a 21-percent rise in weight year on year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mir-Ashrafi named basic goods, machinery, livestock feed inputs, and raw materials for production units as the main imported commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Arab Emirates with 6.9 million tons of goods worth $8.6 billion was the top exporter to Iran in the said period, followed by China with 1.9 million tons of goods worth $6.1 billion, Turkey with 2.5 million tons worth $2.9 billion, and Germany with 512,000 tons worth $1 billion, the official stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the IRICA head, out of the total non-oil goods imported into the country in the first seven months of this year, 16.6 million tons worth $11 billion were basic goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mir-Ashrafi 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
He 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\n\n\n
Iran\u2019s non-oil export was 112 million tons valued at $34.5 billion, and that of import was 34.4 million tons worth $38.5 billion in the past year, the official added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the country\u2019s non-oil export destinations, China was the first, with importing $8.9 billion worth of products, Iraq was the second with importing $7.3 billion, the United Arab Emirates the third with importing $4.6 billion, Turkey the fourth with importing $2.5 billion, and Afghanistan the fifth with importing $2.2 billion, Mir-Ashrafi announced, and named gasoline, natural gas, polyethylene, propane, and pistachio as Iran\u2019s major exported products during the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further named Iran\u2019s top sources of non-oil imports in the said time, as China with exporting $9.7 billion worth of products to the Islamic Republic, the UAE with $9.6 billion, Turkey with $4.3 billion, India with $2.1 billion, and Germany with $1.8 billion, respectively, and mentioned corn, cellphone, rice, oil meal and oil seeds, wheat, and raw oil as the major imported items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran registered a monthly non-oil trade balance of $650 million in the seventh Iranian calendar month Mehr (September 23-October 22), the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced. Ruhollah Latifi put the monthly non-oil trade at 19.554 million tons worth $9.886 billion. The non-oil export was 15.187 million tons worth $5.268 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n