TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, non-oil goods worth about $824 million were exported from East Azarbaijan province, in the northwest of Iran, during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22).

Mohammad-Jafar Ozmaei, the director-general of the province’s Industry, Mining and Trade Department, said that the seven-month export indicates one percent growth year on year.

He named Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan as the major export destinations of the province’s products during the mentioned time span.

The official further announced that the non-oil imports to the province rose 25 percent to $876 million in the first seven months of the present year.

He named Turkey, United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, South Korea, Italy, Austria, Russia, and Brazil as the major sources of imports to the province during the seven-month period of the present year.

As announced by the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), Iran exported 79.5 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $28.3 billion during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year.

Mohammad Rezvani-Far said that the 7-month non-oil export indicates a 29.32 percent rise in weight, and less than one percent drop in value, year on year.

The official further announced that 20.9 million tons of non-oil goods worth $36 billion were imported to the country during the seven-month period of this year, with 6.21 percent growth in weight, and a 12.61 percent rise in value, as compared to the same period of time in the previous year.

Rezvani-Far, who is also the deputy minister of finance and economic affairs, went on to say that the country’s seven-month non-oil trade stands at 100.4 million tons worth $64.4 billion, with 23.71 percent rise in weight, and 6.2 percent increase in value, year on year.

He named liquefied natural gas, liquefied propane, and liquefied butane as the main exported goods, and China, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, and India as the main destinations of Iran's non-oil exports during the first seven months of the present year.

The IRICA head also mentioned corn as livestock food, mobile phones, and soybeans as the main imported goods and the United Arab Emirates, China, Turkey, Germany, and India as the main sources of non-oil imports of Iran in the said seven months.

During this period, the average customs value of each ton of exported goods went from $466 to $357, which shows a decrease of 23.43 percent, according to Rezvani-Far.

It should be mentioned that due to the decrease in global prices of some export goods, including petrochemical products, the country's non-oil export has faced a decrease in value despite the increase in weight.

The official also said that the average customs value of each ton of imported goods was $1,721, which has grown by 6.03 percent compared to $1,624 in the first seven months of the last year.

MA