Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 8
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
The Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) offers the following products and goods for Jan. 8:
Export floor: Offers 39,500 tons of bitumen and granulated sulphur.
Oil and petrochemical trading floor: Offers 108,636 tons of polymers, bitumen, vacuum bottom feed stock, lube cut oil and paraffin waxes.
Industrial and minerals trading floor: Offers 40,000 tons of slab type C from Khuzestan Steel Co., 27,000 tons of rebar and I-beam basket from Esfahan Steel Co. and 10 kilograms of gold bullion from Muteh Gold Complex.
Agriculture floor: Offers 160,000 day-old chickens, 9,400 tons of wheat, 5,500 tons of sugar, 2,000 tons of crude vegetable oil and 11,052 tons of corn.
Furthermore, the side market of IME will offer 600 tons of palm oil from Malaysia and 20 tons of lactic butter.
The IME was founded in 2007. It trades in agricultural, industrial and petrochemical products in spot and futures markets.
There are 70 listed brokerage companies in IME who are members of the exchange licensed by the market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Organization.