Products worth over $1b exported from Alborz province in a year
TEHRAN – Commodities valued at over $1 billion were exported from Alborz province in the past Iranian calendar year 1402 (ended on March 19), Mojtaba Abdollahi, the governor-general of the province, announced.
As previously announced by the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the country’s non-oil exports, excluding exports of electricity, crude oil, and techno-engineering services, stood at 136.4 million tons worth $49.33 billion in the past year, which shows a 9.82 percent rise in terms of tonnage and an 8.87 percent decline in terms of value.
According to Mohammad Rezvanifar, Iran exported $35.87 billion of crude oil, $370 million of electricity, and $1.293 billion of technical engineering services in the mentioned year.
Based on IRICA data, during this period, 48.8 million tons of petrochemical products worth $19.4 billion were also exported, which shows a decrease of 11.32 percent and 28.59 percent in terms of weight and value, respectively.
During this period, liquefied natural gas with $3.9 billion, liquefied propane with $3.62 billion, and bitumen-oil with $2.19 billion were Iran’s top exported items.
Iran's top export destination during this period was China with $13.915 billion worth of imports from the Islamic Republic, followed by Iraq with $9.215 billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over $6.611 billion, Turkey with $4.16 billion, and India with $2.17 billion.
The official put the average customs value of each ton of exported goods at $362 which has decreased by 17 percent compared to the preceding year.
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