TEHRAN - An official at the customs offices of Iran’s Mazandaran province announced the export of more than $318 million of good from the customs of this northern province in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended March 19, 2024), showing a 14 percent growth compared to a year earlier.

In this period, more than 1.506 million tons of non-oil goods, valued at $318.124 million, were exported from the customs offices of Mazandaran province, registering a 52 and a 14 percent growth in volume and value respectively compared to a year earlier, Amir Jamshidi added.

The director general of Noshahr Customs pointed to the export of 298 items of goods exported from the customs offices of this northern province and added that $116 million, $33 million, $35 million, $28 million and $19 million worth of dairy products, cement, plastic materials, citrus fruits and different types of edibles were exported from the customs offices of Mazandaran province respectively to 50 countries in the world, accounted for the 73 percent share of the total goods exported from the customs of this province, according to IRNA.

Iraq, Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan were the five main trade partners of Mazandaran province’s customs in this period, Jamshidi emphasized.

In this period, more than $140 million of non-oil goods were exported from the customs of Mazandaran province to neighboring Iraq, he added.  

More than $282 million worth of non-oil products were exported from Mazandaran province in the first 11 months of the previous Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2023-February 21, 2024), showing a 13 percent growth compared to the same period last year.

According to Jamshidi, over 298 commodity items with a total weight of over 1.377 million tons were exported from the provincial customs offices.

The exports increased by 52 percent in the mentioned 11 months in terms of weight, compared to the same period last year, the official said.

According to Jamshidi dairy products, cement, plastic materials, citrus fruits, and edible products were the top exported goods from the customs offices of Mazandaran province between March 21, 2023, and February 24, 2024.

The non-oil goods were exported to forty-nine countries, mainly to Iraq ($127 million), Russia ($65 million), Turkmenistan ($15 million), Kazakhstan ($12 million) and Uzbekistan ($9 million), he added.

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