Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 20
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
The European countries exported over 2.1 million tons of goods, worth $2.99 billion to Iran during the first five months of current Iranian fiscal year (March 20-Aug. 21, 2016).
The Islamic Republic's imports from the Europe registered an increase by 33 percent in terms of volume and 23 percent in terms of value respectively compared the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics released by Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI).
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) took a dominant share from Iran’s imports during the 5-month period. Tehran imported some 3.128 million tons of goods, worth $4.263 billion from the OIC countries during the 5-month period.
The mentioned amount is 30 and 12 percent less in terms of volume and value respectively, compared the same period of last fiscal year(March 20-Aug. 21, 2015).
Iran's imports from various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
|
Economic organization |
March 20-Aug. 21, 2016 ($million) |
March 20-Aug. 21, 2015 ($million) |
Change |
|
OIC |
4263 |
4868 |
-12% |
|
EU |
2989 |
2436 |
23% |
|
GCC |
2628 |
3181 |
-17% |
|
ECO |
1365 |
1467 |
-7% |
|
CIS |
914 |
430 |
113% |
|
ASEAN |
510 |
506 |
1% |
Iran's exports to various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
|
Economic organization |
March 20-Aug. 21, 2016 ($million) |
March 20-Aug. 21, 2015 ($million) |
Change |
|
OIC |
10584 |
8154 |
30 % |
|
ECO |
4242 |
2489 |
70% |
|
GCC |
3367 |
2639 |
28% |
|
CIS |
954 |
771 |
24% |
|
EU |
687 |
559 |
23% |
|
ASEAN |
265 |
259 |
2% |