TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, non-oil commodities valued at $200.731 million were exported from Golestan province, in the northeast of Iran, during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21).

Shahriyar Shahriyari, the director-general of the province’s Customs Department, put the weight of exported goods at 352,388 tons.

He named Turkmenistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Romania, Armenia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey, Tajikistan, Georgia, India, Azerbaijan, UAE, Greece, Qatar, Cyprus, Oman, Belarus, Bahrain, and Kuwait as the major export destinations of the products.

The official further announced that 51,743 tons of non-oil goods worth $103.811 million were imported to the province in the first eight months of this year.

As previously announced by Darvish-Ali Hassan-Zadeh, the head of the province’s Industry, Mining and Trade Department, the value of non-oil export from Golestan province increased by 26 percent in the past Iranian calendar year 1401 (ended on March 20), as compared to the preceding year.

He said that non-oil commodities worth $235 million were exported from the province to 33 countries in the previous year.

According to the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the value of Iran’s non-oil exports exceeded $32 billion in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year.

Based on the IRICA data, Iran exported 90.044 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $32.243 billion in the mentioned eight months.

The non-oil exports in the mentioned period increased by 27 percent in terms of weight, and 1.6 percent in terms of value, year on year.

The average value of each ton of exported goods in the first eight months of the current year was $358 while the average value of each ton of exported goods in the previous year’s same period was reported to be $462.

Liquefied natural gas, liquefied propane, methanol, petroleum bitumen, and liquefied butane were the five main exported goods in the period under review.

Iran's top export destination during this period was China with $9.158 billion worth of imports from the Islamic Republic, followed by Iraq with $6.023 billion, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over $4.162 billion, Turkey with $3.028 billion, and India with $1.466 billion.

Meanwhile, some 24.709 million tons of goods valued at $42.199 billion were imported into the country in the said period, indicating a 12.36-percent rise in terms of value, and a 4.32 percent increase in terms of weight, year on year.

The average customs value of each ton of imported goods during this period was $1,708, which shows a 7.70 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

Corn, mobile phones, soybeans, automobile parts, sunflower seeds, and safflower were the five main items of imported goods in the mentioned eight-month period.

The country’s top five sources of imports in the first eight months of the current year were the UAE with $13.054 billion, China with $12.191 billion, Turkey with $4.443 billion, Germany with $1.428 billion, and India with $1.244 billion worth of imports.

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