Dalga Khatinoglu, Trend Iran News Service department chief/
Iran's exports to Central Asian countries increased during the country's first month of the new calendar started on March 2013, compared to the similar period last year (1391).
However Iran's Custom Administration's latest published statistics show export values in first moth of Iranian year decreased significantly compared to the previous month (February 20 to March 20).
Iran exported $84,544,979worth of non-oil goods to these countries during Mar 20-Apr 20, 2013, indicating a 9.2 per cent increase compared to the same period in the last solar year and a 57 per cent decrease compared to the previous month in the Iran calendar.
Iran's non-oil exports table to five Central Asia countries, based on USD:
|
Country |
Mar 20-Apr 20 2013 |
Mar 20-Apr 20 2012 |
Feb 20 to Mar 20, 2013 |
last solar year (1391) |
Two years ago (1390) |
|
Turkmenistan |
54,246,605 |
46,900,047 |
82,372,549 |
749,114,979 |
532,502,290 |
|
Tajikistan |
16,338,693 |
20,745,356 |
30,286,997 |
263,079,257 |
194,964,008 |
|
Kazakhstan |
8,512,360 |
5,473,819 |
20,421,068 |
135,245,216 |
84,519,403 |
|
Uzbekistan |
3,534,334 |
3,476,269 |
8,513,915 |
91,725,193 |
76,309,424 |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
1,912,987 |
1,417,722 |
4,985,738 |
43,259,593 |
40,101,798 |
|
Total |
84,544,979 |
78,013,213 |
146,580,267 |
1,282,424,238 |
928,396,923 |
The figures indicate around a 7.3 per cent increase in Iran's total non-oil exports to Central Asia during the last solar year, compared to the previous one.
Iran's non-oil imports table to five Central Asia countries, based on the USD:
|
Country |
Mar 20-Apr 20 2013 |
Mar 20-Apr 20 2012 |
Feb 20 to Mar 20, 2013 |
last solar year (1391) |
Two years ago (1390) |
|
Turkmenistan |
12,459,428 |
2,483,620 |
14,925,334 |
110,952,913 |
136,358,158 |
|
Tajikistan* |
4,778,497 |
- |
3,491,948 |
35,045,883 |
- |
|
Kazakhstan |
1,386,406 |
22,659,574 |
11,208,101 |
186,479,922 |
135,723,231 |
|
Uzbekistan |
4,778,497 |
12,442,647 |
9,571,120 |
169,027,267 |
137,873,799 |
|
Kyrgyzstan* |
412,759 |
- |
697,338 |
5,730,734 |
- |
|
Total |
23,815,587 |
39,893,841 |
507,236,719 |
Iran imported $23.8 million worth non-oil goods from Central Asia during the first month of the Iranian calendar year indicating a 56 per cent drop in value compared to average monthly imports from these countries during the last solar year.
Iran's imports from Central Asia decreased by 60 per cent in the first Iranian month compared to the previous one.
Iran has a gas deal with Turkmenistan as well. Iran imported about 4.5 bmc of gas from Turkmenistan during last solar year while this figure was about 12 bcm in the previous Iranian year.
Iran's total non-oil exports and imports during fist month of current solar year were respectively $2.497 and $2.037 billion. Total export and import statistics indicates respectively 11.1 percent and 38.99 percent decreases compared to same period in last solar year.
Iran exported $41.453 billion non-oil goods and imported $53,348 billion worth non-oil goods during last solar years.