The Customs Administration announced that the balance of foreign trade in the country during the first four months of current Iranian year (starting on March 21) experienced a surplus of trade balance of $271 million while non-oil exports also increased by 14.69 percent.
According to the IRICA, Iran’s non-oil exports amounted to $15.5 billion, experiencing an increase of 14.69 percent, compared to the same period last year.
Last year during the same period, $13.471 billion worth of goods had been exported, a report by Fars News Agency said.
Based on this report, export of non-oil goods to China in the first four months of the current year has increased by 7.73%, respectively.
Iran’s non-oil exports to the United Arab Emirates and Iraq increased 31.95 and 23.19 percent respectively, and there was a drop of 40.48% in exports to South Korea.
During this time, non-oil exports to Afghanistan increased by 30.69%, while exports to other countries increased by 21.30%.
The report added that in the first four months of this year, $15.179 billion worth of goods were imported, which shows 4.05 reduction compared to the same period last year.
The main export items of Iran consisted of gas condensates worth $1.864 billion, $691 million worth of liquefied propane, $555 million worth of light oils and oil products except gasoline, $411 million worth of polyethylene film grade, and $407 million worth of methanol.
The main import items were the parts required for the production of cars worth $726 million, $711 million worth of livestock corn, $675 million worth of rice, $492 million worth of soybean, and $228 million worth of mobile phones.
The main buyers of Iranian goods in these four months were China with $3.46 billion, the United Arab Emirates with $2.808 billion, Iraq with $2.522 billion, Afghanistan with $1.108 billion, the Republic of Korea with $821 million, and other countries with $5.145 billion.
Major exporters to Iran during the aforementioned period included China with $3.890 billion, the United Arab Emirates with $2.169 billion, the Republic of Korea with $987 million, India with $912 million, and Germany with $753 million.
