Iran has exported as much as $4.5 billion worth of non-oil commodities to Iraq in the six calendar months to September 22, according to the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).
Mohammad Rezvanifar said that Iraq was the second largest export destination of Iranian non-oil goods in the period under review.
Chairman of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Yahya Al-e Eshaq said in September that Iraq accounted for 18.2% of Iran’s total exports of non-oil products.
Earlier in April, a senior official in Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) said that Iran’s exports to Iraq hit a new record in the calendar year to late March.
TPO’s head of West Asia department Farzad Piltan noted that the Iranian exports to Iraq had surpassed $10 billion in the year to March 20.
“That is considered a new and unprecedented record in the exports of the Islamic Republic of Iran to this country,” he said.