INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- The value of export from North Khorasan province, in the northeast of Iran, jumped 219 percent in the first quarter of the current
Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21), as compared to the first quarter in the previous year, a provincial official announced.Abbas
province in the three-month period, indicating also 215 percent rise in terms of weight.He named petrochemical products including urea
fertilizer, ammonia and melamine crystal, steel products, edible citric acid, houseplants, plastic products, cans and alpha aluminum as the
major exported items, and Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Turkey, Romania, Uzbekistan and Germany as the main export destinations.The
official further announced that commodities worth $8,781,197 were imported to the province in the first quarter of the present year, with
one percent rise year on year.He named air conditioner, flashlight, frozen red meat, electric motor, digital scale, can production line, and
pipe production line as the main imported items, and China, Brazil, Oman and Turkey as the major sources of imports.As previously announced
commodities valued at over $173 million were exported from North Khorasan during the previous Iranian calendar year 1400 (ended on March
20).Davoudzadeh named Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Germany, India, Turkey, Ukraine, Pakistan, Poland, Syria, Russia, Kuwait,
Austria, Oman, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, and Canada as the main destinations to them the products were exported from North Khorasan
Sudan, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, South Korea, Turkey, India, Netherlands, Ethiopia, Denmark, Austria, Oman, United
Kingdom, Taiwan, Italy, Turkmenistan, Sweden, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Azerbaijan and France as the major sources of imports.As
Moghadasi said Iran exported 27.7 million tons of non-oil commodities in the mentioned three months.Meanwhile, some 8.154 million tons of
goods valued at $12.464 billion were imported into the country in the said period to register an 18-percent rise in terms of value compared
trade partners in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year, up 19.5 percent in terms of value, Moghadasi said.According to the
was China with $4.214 billion worth of imports from the Islamic Republic, followed by Iraq with $1.824 billion, Turkey with $1.737 billion,
these three months were the UAE with $3.426 billion, China with $3.131 billion, Turkey with $1.273 billion, India with $512 million, and
Germany with $456 million worth of imports.MA/MA
