TEHRAN- Some $15.478 billion worth of non-oil products was exported from Iran’s southwestern province of Bushehr during the eleven-month period from March 21, 2018 to February 19, 2019, according to the director general of the province’s customs administration.

In an interview with IRNA, Mansour Bazyar said the figure shows 16 percent rise compared to that of the same period of time in the previous year.

He also put the weight of exported products at 26.31 million tons, with 23 percent fall compared to the same time span of the past year.

He mentioned China, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, India, Japan, Indonesia, Kuwait, Thailand, and Taiwan as the major export destinations of the products.

Iran’s non-oil trade with other countries registered a $1.5-billion positive balance in the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year, Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Farhad Dejpasand has recently announced.

The minister put the value of non-oil exports at $40 billion and that of the imports at $38.5 billion in the mentioned period of time.

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