Baku, Azerbaijan, June 18
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
The European countries exported over 995,000 tons of goods, worth $1.034 billion to Iran during the first two months of current Iranian fiscal year (March 20-May 20).
The Islamic Republic's imports from the Europe registered an increase by 57 percent in terms of volume and 27 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 2-month period. Tehran imported some 1.305 million tons of goods, worth $1.475 billion from the OIC countries during the 2-month period.
The mentioned amount is 34 and 19 percent less in terms of volume and value respectively, compared the same period of last fiscal year(March 20-May 20, 2015).
Iran's imports from various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
Economic organization |
March 20-May 20, 2016 ($million) |
March 20-May 20, 2015 ($million) |
Change |
OIC |
1475 |
1831 |
-19% |
EU |
1034 |
816 |
27% |
GCC |
912 |
1185 |
-23% |
ECO |
467 |
561 |
-17% |
CIS |
459 |
113 |
306% |
ASEAN |
189 |
153 |
24% |
Iran's exports to various economic regions, based on the TPOI report:
Economic organization |
March 20-May 20, 2016 ($million) |
March 20-May 20, 2015 ($million) |
Change |
OIC |
3247 |
3248 |
-0.03% |
GCC |
1127 |
963 |
17% |
ECO |
924 |
1057 |
-13% |
EU |
310 |
194 |
60% |
CIS |
222 |
296 |
-25% |
ASEAN |
131 |
111 |
18% |