More than 1 million tons of foreign commodities were transited via Iranian borders in the calendar month to July 22 posting a 48% growth in comparison to 682,000 tons of last year’s corresponding month, according to the spokesman of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).
Ruhollah Latifi said that the country’s one-month growth in transit is regarded as a record when compared to figures from the past three years ago, IRNA reported.
He said that some 12.4 million tons of the country’s total 50.8 million tons of foreign trade over the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21) were made in the calendar month to July 22 which shows a 10% growth in terms of weight and a 39% increase in terms of value.
Iran exported some 8.3 million tons of commodities valued at $3.6 billion in the one-month period showing a 53% growth in terms of value while remaining unchanged in terms of weight, Latifi said.
IRICA chief Mehdi Mirashrafi released statistics about Iran’s foreign trade over the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year earlier this month.
He said that China was the main destination for Iranian products during the mentioned period (with nearly 10 million tons of imports from the country valued at $4.3 billion), followed by Iraq, UAE, Turkey and Afghanistan as other top importers of Iranian products ranking second to fifth respectively.
Iran also imported some 12.5 million tons of commodities worth $14.5 billion in the period under review, posting 5% growth in terms of weight and 32% increase in terms of value, the official said.
He noted that basic commodities accounted for some 9.4 million tons of Iran’s total 12.5 million tons of imports.
The official said that the UAE was the number one exporter to Iran during the four-month period with 4 million tons of shipments worth $4.7 billion.
China, Turkey, Germany and Switzerland ranked as the second to fifth exporters to Iran following the UAE, with $3.1 billion, $1.5 billion, $563 million and $539 million worth of shipments to Iran respectively, Mirashrafi said.