BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 16. A total of over 2 million tons of goods worth about 175 trillion rials (about $4.16 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the last Iranian week (April 9 through April 14, 2022), Trend reports citing the IME’s official website.
This is a decrease of 13.2 percent in value and 2.15 percent in volume, compared to the preceding Iranian week (April 2 through April 7, 2022).
So, 2.05 million tons of goods worth about 202 trillion rials (about $4.8 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the preceding week.
According to the report, about 1.52 million tons of goods worth about 96.3 trillion rials (about $2.29 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, zinc, copper, aluminum, lead, molybdenum concentrate, precious metal concentrate, gold bars, etc.
In addition, about 427,000 tons of various oil and petrochemical products worth about 76.5 trillion rials (about $1.82 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 vacuum bottom, bitumen, polymer substances, lube cut, chemicals, base oil, sulfur, argon, and etc.
Furthermore, about 56,900 tons of various products worth about 2.06 trillion rials (about $49.2 million) were sold in the submarket section of the exchange.
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