Azerbaijan, Baku, Sep.22 /Trend R.Zamanov/
Iran's non-oil exports will rise in the second half of the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21, Director of the Trade Promotion Organisation of Iran Hamid Safdel said on Sunday.
"The country's non-oil exports in the first five months of the current year faced decrease compared to the same period of the previous year, but we hope the figures will rise in the second half of the year," the IRIB News Agency quoted Safdel as saying.
"The new administration has a 100-day economic plan which can boost the country's economy," he said.
On September 4, the Deputy Director of the Trade Promotion Organisation of Iran, Kioumars Fathollah Kermanshahi said that Iran's foreign trade stood at around $31.5 billion in the first five months of the current year which started on March 21.
"The country's exports accounted for $15.2 billion of the mentioned amount, which is eight percent less than the same period of the last year," the ISNA News Agency quoted Fathollah Kermanshahi as saying.
"Iran's imports also faced 26 percent decrease in the same period," he said.
Fathollah Kermanshahi added that the sharp fall in raw materials imports has resulted in a decrease in the country's total foreign trade.
He went on to note that Iran's priority in allocating Forex to imports should be towards the production units' needed raw materials.
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