TEHRAN- “Iran exported $336 million of hand-woven carpets in the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2017- January 20, 2018), showing an increase of 22 percent compared to the same period of time in the past year,” ISNA reported on Friday quoting Hamid Kargar, the head of Iran's National Carpet Center.

The country’s exports of hand-woven carpets during the first half of the present calendar year (March 21- September 22, 2017) stood at $153 million, indicating 13 percent rise from that of the same time span in the previous year, Kargar has previously announced.

Iran’s exports of hand-woven carpets in the past Iranian calendar year 1395 (ending March 20, 2017) stood at $359 million, he added. 

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