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Non-oil products worth $184M exported from Iran’s Astara

Business Materials 25 October 2018 15:59 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 25

By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:

In the first seven months of the Iranian year (started March 21, 2018), 441,000 tons of non-oil products worth $184 million were exported from Iran’s Astara and 117,000 tons of products worth $124 million were imported, Director General of Iran’s Astara Customs Office Rasoul Omidi said in an interview with IRNA.

He said that most of the products exported to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia accounted for agricultural, chemical, mining and metal, food products, rubber, cement, gypsum, detergents, fabric, handicraft products, carpet and moquette, clothes, bags and shoes.

“Compared to the same period of last year, export of non-oil products this year increased by 172 percent in terms of weight and 109 percent in terms of value,” he said.

During the reporting period, 64,000 tons of products worth $117 million entered Iran, he added.

These were mainly wooden materials, oil products, cotton, artificial fiber, iron bars and copper, he said, adding that they were transported from Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine to Turkey, Iraq and the UAE.

Over the past seven months, the volume of foreign transit was 155,000 tons, he noted.

Electric appliances, vehicles, furniture, technical equipment, healthcare equipment, construction materials, crystal dishes, clothes, chemicals and agricultural products worth $748 million were transported from Iran's Astara to Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.

“During the reporting period, 2,496 tons of foodstuffs, rubber and agricultural products worth $10 million were exported mainly to Azerbaijan via suitcase trade,” he said.

He added that 718,877 people crossed the border checkpoint in Iran’s Astara in the first seven months of the year, and, compared with the same period last year, the number of people who left the country increased by 55 percent and the number of those who arrived in Iran grew by 66 percent.

He noted that the customs duty was about $102 million in the reporting period, adding that this is a 120 percent increase compared to the previous year.

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