Baku, Azerbaijan, May 27
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
The value of Iran’s exports, including gas condensate, exceeded $2.54 billion in the first month of this Iranian year (started March 21, 2019), Trend reports referring to the Iranian Trade Promotion Organization.
About 8.52 million tons of products were exported during this period.
Compared with the same period last year (started March 21, 2018), exports decreased by 18.2 percent in terms of value and increased by 7.7 percent in terms of weight this year.
|
In the first month of this Iranian year |
In the first month of last Iranian year |
Change in percentage |
||||
|
Weight (in 1,000 tons) |
Value (in million US dollars) |
Weight (in 1,000 tons) |
Value (in million US dollars) |
Weight |
Value |
|
|
Gas condensate |
348 |
674 |
448 |
860 |
-22.2 |
-21.7 |
|
Oil and chemicals |
881 |
2,324 |
1,038 |
1,964 |
-15.2 |
18.4 |
|
Industry |
959 |
3,222 |
1,333 |
2,930 |
-28 |
9.9 |
|
Carpet and handcraft |
4 |
0.6 |
12.8 |
0.5 |
-68.8 |
29 |
|
Agriculture |
234 |
415 |
296 |
605 |
-21 |
-31 |
|
Mine |
121 |
1,892 |
84.5 |
1,562 |
43 |
21 |
|
All non-oil exports |
2,547 |
8,527 |
3,115 |
7,921 |
-18.2 |
7.7 |
The main items exported in the first month of this Iranian year are as follows:
|
Raw |
Product |
Value of exports (in million US dollars) in the first month of this Iranian year |
Share value in all exports (in percentage) |
Initial price (in US dollars per ton) |
Change in percentage of initial price compared to the first month of last Iranian year |
Value change in percentage compared to first month of last Iranian year |
|
1 |
Gas condensate |
348 |
13.7 |
517 |
-1 |
-22 |
|
3 |
Other light oil and products excluding gasoline |
147 |
5.8 |
455 |
-4 |
61 |
|
2 |
Liquefied propane |
144 |
5.7 |
419 |
-21 |
-12 |
|
5 |
Methanol |
100 |
3.9 |
233 |
-33 |
18 |
|
4 |
Unfinished products of iron and steel |
90 |
3.5 |
390 |
-12 |
66 |
|
6 |
Polyethylene with a weight of less than 94% |
83 |
3.3 |
954 |
-20 |
-39 |
|
7 |
Bitumen |
81 |
3.2 |
299 |
55 |
48 |
|
8 |
Urea (as well as in form of solution) |
79 |
3.1 |
171 |
-24 |
10.5 |
|
9 |
Other oil and hydrocarbon gases |
61 |
2.4 |
524 |
1 |
37 |
|
10 |
Liquefied butane |
61 |
2.4 |
429 |
-17 |
-35 |
|
In total |
1,194 |
46.9 |
388 |
-15 |
-3.8 |
|