Baku, Azerbaijan, May 17
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
The European countries exported over 4.57 million tons of goods, worth $6.23 billion to Iran during the last Iranian fiscal year (ended March 20).
The Islamic Republic's imports from the Europe registered a fall by 28 percent in terms of volume and 18 percent in terms of value respectively compared the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics released by Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI).
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) took a dominant share from Iran 's imports during the last fiscal year. Tehran imported some 9.64 million tons of goods, worth $11.16 billion from the OIC countries during the 12-month period.
The mentioned amount is 27 and 32 percent less in terms of volume and value respectively, compared the last fiscal year.
Iran's imports from various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
|
Economic organization |
March 2015-2016 ($million) |
March 2014-2015($million) |
Change |
|
OIC |
11160 |
16434 |
-32% |
|
GCC |
7186 |
11399 |
-37% |
|
EU |
6229 |
7640 |
-18% |
|
ECO |
3433 |
4443 |
-23% |
|
ASEAN |
1294 |
1161 |
11% |
|
CIS |
920 |
1331 |
-31% |
Iran's exports to various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
|
Economic organization |
March 2015-2016 ($million) |
March 2014-2015($million) |
Change |
|
OIC |
19212 |
18949 |
-1% |
|
ECO |
6039 |
7205 |
-16% |
|
GCC |
5799 |
4496 |
29% |
|
CIS |
1883 |
2509 |
-25% |
|
EU |
1590 |
1496 |
6% |
|
ASEAN |
705 |
828 |
-15% |