Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 20
By Fatih Karimov– Trend:
Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization, affiliated with the country’s Industry, Mine and Trade ministry, has published its monthly trade report, which indicates that food and cars as well as car parts maintain their dominant position in Iran’s imports’ list during the first five months of the current fiscal year (March 20-Aug. 22).
Iran imported 14.225 million tons of goods, worth $19.442 billion during the 5-month period, which indicates 7.1 and 16.5 percent rise in terms of volume and value respectively, compared to the same period of preceding year, according to the report.
Car parts worth $1.204 billion (77 percent increase, 6.2 percent of total imports’ value), passenger cars worth $1.032 billion (50 percent increase), rice worth $962 million (102 percent increase), corn fodder worth $617 million (45 percent increase), modems and phones worth $427 million(40 percent increase), soybean worth $410 million(1 percent fall), medical drugs worth $387 million( 2 percent increase) and sugar worth $349 million(175 percent increase) were the main imported goods of the Islamic Republic in the 5-month period.
The average price for each ton of Iran's imported goods in the mentioned period was around $1367, indicating a rise of 9 percent, YOY.