TEHRAN- The trade between Iran and European Union countries during the first three months of 2018 stood at €5.3 billion, the same as the figure of the first quarter of 2017, Tasnim news agency reported.

According to the latest report of European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat, EU countries exported €2.39 billion of goods to Iran in the said time, registering a five-percent-decrease from its previous €2.53 billion in the same period in 2017.
EU members imported €2.912 billion of Iranian goods from January to March of 2018, showing five percent increase from €2.777 billion in first quarter of 2017.
While Germany, Italy and France were respectively the major exporters to Iran, Italy, Spain and Greece were the three top importers from the country in the said time span, this year.

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