BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 12
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
A total of 1.98 million tons of goods worth more than 144 trillion rials (about $3.42 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the last Iranian week (December 4 through December 9, 2021), Trend reports citing the IME’s official website.
This is an increase of 15 percent in value, and 5.8 percent in volume, compared to the preceding Iranian week (November 27 through December 2, 2021).
So, 1.87 million tons of goods worth more than 125 trillion rials (about $2.97 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the preceding week.
According to the report, about 1.69 million tons of goods worth about 92 trillion rials (about $2.19 billion) were sold in the industrial and mining products section of IME last week.
The main products sold in this section were cement, steel, iron ore, sponge iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, precious metal concentrate and etc.
In addition, about 275,000 tons of various oil and petrochemical products worth about 50.2 trillion rials (about $1.19 billion) were sold in the oil and petrochemical products section of IME last Iranian week, the report said.
The main products sold in this section were bitumen, polymer substances, vacuum bottom, lube cut, chemicals, base oil, sulfur, and etc.
Furthermore, 8,460 tons of various products worth 1.62 trillion rials (about $38.6 million) were sold in the submarket section of the exchange.
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