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calendar year (March 21-May 21), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, a provincial official announced.Ali Soleymani, the
director-general of the customs department of Busher city (center of the province), said that over 4.757 million tons of products were
exported from Bushehr province in the said two-month period.The official named petrochemical products and gas condensate as the major items
value of export from Bushehr province rose 67 percent in the past Iranian calendar year 1400 (ended on March 20), from its preceding year.He
put the value of export from the province at $10.136 billion in the past year, and the weight of exported commodities, including gas
condensate, at 25.78 million tons, with six percent growth year on year.The official further announced that 25.506 million tons of non-oil
goods, excluding gas condensate, worth $9.9 billion were exported from Bushehr province in the previous year, showing 73 percent and six
percent annual rise in terms of value and weight, respectively.He named petrochemical products, gas condensate, minerals, fisheries, and
vegetables as the main exported items, and China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, Pakistan, Turkey, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil,
months of the current year, as compared to the same period of time in the past year.Iran exported 17.014 million tons of non-oil commodities
worth $8.516 billion in the said two months, also registering a 1.6-percent rise in weight as compared to the first two months of the
previous year, the data indicate.Based on the IRICA data, Iran traded over 22.196 million tons of non-oil products worth $16.631 billion
with other countries in the mentioned period.The Islamic Republic imported 5.182 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $8.115 billion in
the first two months of the present year, with a 24-percent growth in value and a 3.37-percent decline in weight year on year.Among the
second with $1.502 billion worth of imports, Iraq the third importing $1.312 billion, Turkey the fourth with $766 million of imports, and
months were China, Turkey, India, and Russia.Considering the amounts of exports and imports in the mentioned two months, the country's
foreign trade balance became $401 million positive.MA/MA
