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Nonoil goods worth 718m exported from Isfahan province in 7 months

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Non-oil goods worth $718m exported from Isfahan province in 7 months​

TEHRAN – As announced by a provincial official, 1.093 million tons of non-oil commodities valued at $718.631 million were exported from Isfahan province during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-October 21).

Non-oil goods worth $718m exported from Isfahan province in 7 months

Rasoul Kouhestani, the director-general of the province’s Customs Department, said that the non-oil export from the province fell 15 percent and 19 percent in terms of worth and weight, year on year.

The official named petrochemical products, iron and steel, dairy products, carpet, and copper as the major exported products, and Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)as the major destinations of the products exported from the province in the mentioned seven months.

As previously announced by the former head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), the value of Iran’s foreign trade reached $99.7 billion during the first seven months of the present Iranian year.

Mohammad Rezvanifar said that of the mentioned figure, $60.2 billion was the value of the country’s export, and $39.5 billion was the worth of the import.

He put the value of non-oil export at $32.5 billion, the oil export at $27 billion, and technical-engineering export at $700 million in the seven-month period.

Saying that the value of the country’s non-oil export rose 15 percent in the first seven months of this year, as compared to the same period of time in the past year, the official put the weight of non-oil export at 88.7 million tons in the mentioned seven-month, with 11.48 percent growth, year on year.

He further put the weight of the seven-month import at 21.7 million tons.

According to Rezvanifar, the average value of each ton of exported goods has increased by three percent to $367 and the average worth of each ton of imported products has risen six percent to $1,819 in the first seven months of this year, as compared to the same time span of the past year.

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source: tehrantimes.com