TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial authorities, non-oil commodities valued at $1.13 billion were exported from East Azarbaijan province, in the northwest of Iran, during the very first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Decemebr 21, 2022).
Saber Parnian, the head of the provinces Industry, Mining and Trade Department, said minerals and mining markets items represented the lions share of the export from the province in the said time span.He put the worth of export from the said sector at $426 million, with a 13.7-percent growth year on year.He stated 1,276 types of items were exported to 98 nations from the province in the first nine months of this year and named Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, United Arab Emirates, and Georgia as the major export destinations.The head of the provinces Industry, Mining, and Trade Department also named Yemen, Ethiopia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Venezuela as a few of the brand-new export markets of East Azarbaijan products.As formerly revealed by an official with the provinces customs department, the value of export from East Azarbaijan rose 16 percent in the past Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20, 2022), from its preceding year.Leili Orangi said that commodities worth $1.654 billion were exported from the province in the previous year.In regards to the weight, the exports suggest nine percent annual growth, she added.The official called carpets and handicrafts, sugary foods and chocolates, glass and glass items, steel and cast iron, items made of plastic materials, minerals and stones, nuts, petrochemical products, machinery and mechanical gadgets, components and parts, leather and shoes as the major exported products, and Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Georgia, Bulgaria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Italy as the primary export destinations.Based on the information launched by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the value of Irans non-oil export rose 19 percent from the start of the existing Iranian fiscal year (March 21, 2022) approximately December 31, as compared to the same time period in the past year.According to the IRICA data, Iran exported 97.843 million lots of products valued at $43.088 billion in the discussed duration, also registering a two-percent increase in weightLiquefied natural gas, melted propane, methanol, melted butane, and film-grade polyethylene were the primary exported items in the stated time span.Major export locations of Iranian non-oil goods were China, Iraq, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and India.The Islamic Republic has likewise imported 28.18 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $44.337 billion in the first 286 days of today year, with a 14.7-percent development in value and a 10-percent increase in weight, year on year.The major items of goods imported into the country in the said duration include corn, rice, wheat, soybeans, sunflower seed oil, and cellular phone, based on the IRICA data.The United Arab Emirates was the leading exporter to Iran in the discussed duration, followed by China, Turkey, India, and Germany.Reportedly, the worth of Irans non-oil trade increased 17 percent during the discussed period, as compared to the exact same time span in the past year.Iran traded more than 126 million tons of non-oil products worth over $88 billion with other countries in the mentioned period.MA/ MA