TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, about 166,000 tons of non-oil goods worth about $284 million were exported from Zanjan province during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21).

Zeyn-ul-Abedin Ganj-Khanlou, the director-general of the province’s customs department, said that the eight-month export indicates 29 percent fall in terms of value, and 14 percent drop in terms of weight, year on year.

The official also announced that over 441,000 tons of non-oil goods worth about $356 million were imported to the province during the eight-month period, with 16 percent rise in terms of value, and eight percent growth in terms of weight, year on year.

He named Turkey, Iraq, Russia, the UAE, and Pakistan as the main export destinations, and Turkey, the UAE, Switzerland, Germany, and China as the major sources of import.

As previously announced by the head of the province’s Industry, Mining and Trade Department, commodities valued at $579 million were exported from Zanjan province in the past Iranian calendar year 1401 (ended on March 20).

Saying that six countries were added to the export destinations of the province, Majid Golshani said that currently, the main export target countries of the province are Turkey, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pakistan, India, Azerbaijan, Oman, South Africa, Russia, and Spain.

He named zinc ingots, transformers and accessories, rebars, steel ingots, copper wire, zinc concentrate, cardboard, lead ingots, and dairy products as the main exported items.

The official further announced that commodities worth $504 million were imported to the province in the previous year, and named Turkey, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Slovakia, Singapore, Italy, China, Hong Kong, and Spain as the main sources of imports.

He listed wood pulp, recycled paper and cardboard, tobacco, polyamide and plastic tape, production line machines, polyamide thread and polyester thread as the major imported items.

According to the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the value of Iran’s non-oil exports exceeded $32 billion in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year.

Based on the IRICA data, Iran exported 90.044 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $32.243 billion in the mentioned eight months.

The non-oil exports in the mentioned period increased by 27 percent in terms of weight, and 1.6 percent in terms of value, year on year.

The average value of each ton of exported goods in the first eight months of the current year was $358 while the average value of each ton of exported goods in the previous year’s same period was reported to be $462.

Liquefied natural gas, liquefied propane, methanol, petroleum bitumen, and liquefied butane were the five main exported goods in the period under review.

Iran's top export destination during this period was China with $9.158 billion worth of imports from the Islamic Republic, followed by Iraq with $6.023 billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over $4.162 billion, Turkey with $3.028 billion, and India with $1.466 billion.

Meanwhile, some 24.709 million tons of goods valued at $42.199 billion were imported into the country in the said period, indicating a 12.36-percent rise in terms of value, and a 4.32 percent increase in terms of weight, year on year.

The average customs value of each ton of imported goods during this period was $1,708, which shows a 7.70 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

Corn, mobile phones, soybeans, automobile parts, sunflower seeds, and safflower were the five main items of imported goods in the mentioned eight-month period.

The country’s top five sources of imports in the first eight months of the current year were the UAE with $13.054 billion, China with $12.191 billion, Turkey with $4.443 billion, Germany with $1.428 billion, and India with $1.244 billion worth of imports.

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