Figures released by the Customs Administration of Iran show that non-oil exports over the period reached as high as $31.59 billion \u2013 an increase of 9.5 percent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n
Imports also stood at $31.53 billion, showing an increase of 4.3 percent year-on-year. Nevertheless, a comparison of the two figures showed that Iran\u2019s trade surplus was positive, a statement by the Customs Administration of Iran showed.<\/p>\n
Gas condensate comprised the majority of Iran\u2019s non-oil exports over the period at 16.2 percent with a collective value of $5.12 billion.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The main export destinations of Iran over a period of nine months of 2016 were China ($5.69 billion), the UAE ($5.50 billion), Turkey ($2.71 billion) and South Korea ($2.33 billion).<\/p><\/div>\n
Next top exported items were liquefied petroleum gas (LPG<\/a><\/strong>) and light industrial oil each with a share of 6.18 percent and 3.89 percent and the net value of $1.95 billion and $1.23 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n The main export destinations of Iran were China <\/a><\/strong>($5.69 billion), the UAE <\/a><\/strong>($5.50 billion), Turkey <\/a><\/strong>($2.71 billion) and South Korea<\/a><\/strong> ($2.33 billion), the statement added.<\/p>\n Also, figures show that a majority of the imports were carried out from China ($7.51 billion), the UAE ($5.10 billion), South Korea ($2.50 billion) and Turkey ($2.18 billion).<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Customs Administration further emphasized that imports from the above countries had seen moderate declines.<\/p>\n There was only a significant rise in imports from Germany. Imports from Germany over the same period had seen an increase of 38.22 percent with a total value of $1.78 billion, the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest official figures show that Iran\u2019s exports of non-oil commodities over a period of nine months starting 21 March 2016 increased by around 10 percent \u2013 another indication which shows that the country\u2019s trade is improving after the removal of multiple years of sanctions. Figures released by the Customs Administration of Iran show that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[70],"tags":[121,986,3,985,987,233,305,608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}