Iran’s non-oil export to Afghanistan up 31% in 10 months on year.
The value of Iran’s non-oil export to Afghanistan increased by 31 percent during the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2024-January 19, 2025), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, the spokesperson for the Trade Development Committee of the House of Industry, Mining, and Trade announced.
Ruhollah Latifi said that Iran exported non-oil commodities valued at $1.972 billion to Afghanistan in the ten-month period.
He said that Afghanistan was the fourth top export destination of Iranian products among Iran’s neighbors in the mentioned ten months. In a meeting with an Iranian trade delegation in Kabul in last August, Afghanistan’s interim Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund said that his country is eager to attract Iranian investors in order to develop Afghan mining industry, generate solar electricity and expand railway connectivity.
Referring to Afghanistan’s import priorities, including food, agriculture, fuel, basic goods such as flour, oil, eggs, day-old chickens, medicine, medical equipment, and construction equipment, he continued: “Iran exported more than 724 million dollars of goods to Afghanistan in the first four months of the current [Iranian calendar year] (March 20-July 21, 2024) which has increased by 28 percent compared to the same period last year.”
Source: TEHRANTIMES
