BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 3. In total, 2.43 million tons of goods worth approximately 191 trillion rials (about $4.54 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME), during the last Iranian week (March 25 through March 30, 2023), Trend reports citing the IME’s official website.
This is a decrease of 36.9 percent in value compared to the preceding Iranian week (March 11 through March 16, 2023).
So, about 3.29 million tons of goods and 90 passenger cars worth 303 trillion rials (about $7.23 billion) were sold at the Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the preceding Iranian week.
According to the report, 2 million tons of goods worth about 94.6 trillion rials (about $2.25 billion) were sold in IME's industrial and mining products section last week.
The main products sold in this section included cement, iron ore, steel, sponge iron, aluminum, and etc.
Also, 407,000 tons of various oil and petrochemical products worth 94.4 trillion rials (about $2.24 billion) were sold in the oil and petrochemical products section of IME last Iranian week.
The main products sold in this section were bitumen, vacuum bottom, polymer substances, chemicals, lube cut, base oil, petroleum products, sulfur, and etc.
At the same time, about 6,900 tons of various products worth 1.52 trillion rials (about $36.2 million) were sold in the submarket section of the exchange.
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