Iran’s Non-Oil Exports to Afghanistan Up 41% in 2-Month Period
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The commercial attaché of Iran in Afghanistan said that Iran’s non-oil export to the neighboring country registered a 41 percent growth in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2024) compared to the same period last year.
Iran’s export of non-oil goods to Afghanistan increased by $102 million in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year, showing a 41 percent hike compared to last year’s corresponding period, Hossein Roustaei said.
He added that Afghanistan is Iran’s sixth export target market and that Afghanistan is one of the export target countries with the highest positive balance of trade with Iran.
He put the volume of Iran’s export of non-oil goods to Afghanistan from March 19 to May 22, 2024, at $350 million, showing a 41 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
In this period, Iran exported 181,000 tons of non-oil goods to Afghanistan, Roustaei noted.
Light oils, oil products, oil gases, ingot, iron, steel, compound, polyethylene, light- and heavy hydrocarbons, foodstuff, urea, tomato, tree apples, cement, types of polyethylene, potatoes, fresh fruits and vegetables, orange and infant formula were the main products exported from Iran to the neighboring country, he stated.
Iran imported more than $7 million of products from Afghanistan between March 19 and May 22, 2024, he added.