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Iran discloses volume of products exported from North Khorasan province

Business Materials 23 April 2019 14:59 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 23

By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:

Some 433,000 tons of products were exported from Iran’s north-eastern North Khorasan province last Iranian year (started on March 21, 2018), Reza Firuze, chairman of Iran's Industry, Mine and Trade Organization of the North Khorasan province, said.

The volume of exported products decreased by 18.6 percent last Iranian year compared to the previous year, Firuze added, Trend reports referring to IRNA.

Firuze said that the value of the exported products exceeded $134 million last Iranian year.

In terms of value, export of products declined by 10 percent last Iranian year compared to the previous year.

Last Iranian year, the products worth $160 million were planned to be exported from the North Khorasan province and the plan was fulfilled by 84 percent, he said.

He said that petrochemical products (carbamide, melamine, ammonia), steel, rubber, cement, food products, agricultural products, electrode and building materials are mainly exported from the province.

Firuze added that the products are exported from the North Khorasan province to Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, India, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Italy, US, Denmark, Spain, Myanmar, Australia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Pakistan, Russia, Germany, Georgia, Belgium and Kazakhstan.

Thus, 29 percent accounted for the products exported from North Khorasan province to Afghanistan, 21.7 percent - to India, 11.9 percent - to Myanmar, 10.4 percent - to Iraq, 8.5 percent - to Turkmenistan and 18.5 percent - to other countries last Iranian year.

Firuze said that 12,900 tons of products worth $26.6 million were imported to the province last Iranian year.

The volume of the imported products increased by 116 percent in terms of value, while by 143 percent in terms of weight, he said.

Firuze said that rice, artificial leaves and fruits, ferrochrome, nickel, technical equipment and spare parts, poultry farming equipment, glass fibers and so on are among the products imported from China, Pakistan, Turkey, Canada, Austria and Russia to North Khorasan province.

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