Officials from Iran and Afghanistan have held talks aimed at facilitating Afghan traders’ access to the Chabahar Port.
Mahmoud Siadat, the chairman of Iran-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce, has stressed the need for Iranian businesspeople to make joint investments in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has welcomed an Iranian offer for making investments in that country.
Goods supplied from Iran account for a fourth of all imports into Afghanistan, according to a trade attaché in the Iranian embassy in Kabul.
Head of Iran-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce Mahmoud Siadat says that Afghan businesspeople have made as much as $3 billion worth of investment in Iran.
Iran’s commercial attaché to Afghanistan said there was a $123 million rise in non-oil exports to the neighboring country in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year.
Head of Iran’s Birjand Chamber of Commerce says that Iran’s exports to Afghanistan can rise to as much as $5 billion.
Afghanistan’s acting minister of commerce Haji Nooruddin Azizi says his country is seeking to enhance bilateral trade with Iran to over $10 billion.
Businesspeople from Afghanistan have stressed the need for Iranian private sector to make more investment in the country.
An official at the Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan said that Iran exported over $1.8 billion worth of non-oil products to the neighboring country in the previous Iranian calendar year to late March.