Speaking at 23rd meeting of Representatives Board of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA) on Tue., Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi said that Islamic Republic of Iran imported 4.5 million tons of products, valued at $5.6 billion, since the beginning of the current year (started March 21) up to May 15, showing a 28 percent hike as compared to the last year’s corresponding period.

Some 15.5 million tons of non-oil goods, valued at $5.6 billion, was exported from the country from March 21 to May 15, 2021, registering a 46 percent growth as compared to the same period of last year, Mir-Ashrafi reiterated.

According to the statistics, totally 145.7 million tons of non-oil goods, valued at $73 billion, were exported and imported from/to the country last year (from March 21, 2020 to March 20, 2021), IRICA president added.

He went on to say that 10,343,000 tons of commodities, valued at $5.762 billion, were exchanged between Iran and its trader partner in the first Iranian month of Farvardin in the current year (from March 21 to April 20), showing a 32 and 62.5 percent hike both in terms of weight and value respectively.

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TEHRAN – Spokesman to Iran Customs Administration Seyed Ruhollah Latifi says the country has exported dairy products worth over $153m to different countries in the first four months.

Latifi said that dairy is one of the products that fortunately Iran has become one of its major exporters, saying that the country has turned from an importing to an exporting dairy product country.

He added that in the first four months of the current year, Iranian dairy producers have exported 152,574 tons of their products worth over $153m.

Latifi added that despite the outbreak of Coronavirus, closure of borders and trade restrictions in the world, Iran managed to export dairy products to 30 countries in the first four months. He added Canada, Germany, Australia, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia, the UAE, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iraq and New Zealand were the major destinations for Iran’s dairy exports.

Iraq had the most shares of Iran’s dairy exports with over $75m and Afghanistan trailed Iraq with $18m. Pakistan with $13m was the third major destination for Iran’s dairy exports.

He said fresh cheese, whey, milk, packed butter, yogurt, cream, industrial milk powder milk and powdered milk for babies were the major products exported in this period.

Latifi noted that due to the climate of Middle East and North Africa states, Iran’s food industry has found its special place in the country’s non-oil exports, adding that dairy products’ exports accounted for 14 percent of Iran’s total non-oil exports in 2018 and 15 percent in 2019 and the figure can grow more.

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TEHRAN – The spokesman of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) says that Iran has exported tea to 12 countries during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-June 20).

Rouhollah Latifi announced that over 575 tons of tea worth $493,785 was exported during the three-month period.

The official has stated that 75 percent of the payment to the tea farmers will be made by the tea factories and the other 25 percent is paid by the government.

Latifi said Iraq has been the main destination for Iran’s tea exports in the first quarter by purchasing 183 tons of tea worth $237,500. He added that Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Germany, India, Tajikistan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkey were the other major destinations for Iran’s tea, respectively.

On the amount of imported tea, he said the country has imported tea from 14 countries and India by selling 8,000 tons of tea worth $38m topped the list of exporters to Iran.

Larifi added that Sri Lanka by selling tea worth over $13m and the UAE with selling tea worth over $11m ranked second and third among tea exporting countries to Iran.

He further said the statistics of the customs administration show that the volume of Iran’s imported tea was between 60 million to 70 million tons last year. He then pointed to the significance of Iran’s position in the tea trade, adding that tea is a commodity for all walks of the society and it is the most widely consumed drinking in the world after water and is one of the most money-making agro products. Latifi noted that if one takes a look at international trade statistics, he can notice that four countries account for 45 percent of tea production and 60 percent of tea exports.

He added that India, China, Kenya and Sri Lanka are the major tea exporting countries and most of tea products in China and India have domestic consumption and Kenya and Sri Lanka export the most amount of tea in the world.

Meanwhile earlier Head of Iran’s Tea Organization (ITO) Habib Jahansaz has said that tea production in the country is expected to rise 10 percent in the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20, 2021).

Tea harvest season starts in farmlands across the northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran in early May.

More than 55,000 families grow tea over 28,000 hectares of farmland in the two provinces, accounting for 90 percent of the country’s total tea production.

In late December 2019, Jahansaz said Iran exported over 4,000 tons of tea to the neighboring countries, in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19).

Iran exports tea to India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Canada, Australia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

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A senior official at the ministry of trade (MIMT) said on Tuesday that Iran had shipped a total of 135 million metric tons of exports as non-oil goods and products to other countries in two years between March 2018 and March 2020.

Hossein Modarres said that declared revenues for those shipments reached around $41.3 billion although he insisted that real income derived from exports over the past two calendar years was around $48 billion as many exporters normally declare lower values for their cargoes.

Modarres said that the Iranian government and the private sector had gained another $12 billion from the provision of technical, engineering and tourism services to other countries as well as from the exports of natural gas.

He said moving away from oil incomes turned out to be a blessing for Iran as the country is now feeling the minimum possible pressure from a historic crash in international crude prices.

“If there was no national self-esteem for moving away from oil there could be economic shocks because of the freefall in the price of oil in the international markets,” he said, adding, “Iran has been spared of these shocks (through) relying on export revenues.”

For the past two years, Iran has adopted various measures to help boost exports of various goods and services including lowering tariffs and taking steps to shore up key sectors of the economy like agriculture and manufacturing.

Petrochemical products still account for a bulk of Iran’s exports to other countries followed by metals and raw minerals, agrifood and handicraft.

In May 2018, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and later imposed sanctions on Iran.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Rahmani said that minerals account for 25% of Iran’s total non-oil exports share.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – The export of some highly-demanded goods to Eurasia was facilitated after the implementation of a preferential trade deal with Iran, said the head of the Export Promotion Committee of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), adding that the volume of trade is rising for these items.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s ministry of the industry says export of Iranian cigarettes had a lower appeal for foreign customers and smugglers in the eight-month period ending in late November 2019 as figures nearly halved compared to the similar period last year.

The ministry, known as MIMT, said legal export between March 21 and November 21 this year had stood at 80 million Iranian cigarettes, or four million packs of 20s, down 47 percent compared to the similar period in 2018.

It said smuggling, which account for the bulk of the cigarettes sent outside Iran, also plummeted by 42.6 percent to stand at 8.16 billion, or just more than four billion packs of 20s.

The total domestic consumption of cigarettes produced inside Iran, including those bearing famous international trademarks, reached 43.33 billion, or over 21.6 billion packs of 20s, over the same period, said the report covered in the official IRNA agency.

There was no data available on the imports of cigarettes or illegal trafficking into the Iranian territory of products of major cigarette companies.

However, such imports have been significantly down over the past few years, both due to more government restrictions on retails and lower demand inside Iran for such cigarettes.

The lower export of cigarettes from Iran compared to the last year comes despite the fact that the country keeps shipping more and more tobacco to other countries.

A report in October showed that tobacco exports from Iran had increased by almost 10 times in the first five months of the Iranian calendar year beginning in late March 2019.

The report said Iran had exported more than 799 tons (over 880 American tons) of tobacco until September, a historic high and an increase of 955.5 percent compared to the same period in 2018.

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Speaking in a meeting of the ministry’s council of deputies on Saturday, Rahmani said the mentioned desks are focused on automotive, petrochemicals, mining, electricity, electronics and telecommunications industries.

The official also noted that preparations have been made for holding seven more desks for promoting domestic production in the fields of electricity, electronics, and telecommunications, petrochemicals, home appliances, utilities, rail and auto industries which will make the country savings another €490 million.

Improving and boosting domestic production has been one of the major strategies that Iran has been following in the past two years in order to increase its independence.

To this end, the Iranian government has put supporting domestic producers atop agenda in the current year.

In late November, Rahmani had said that relying on domestic production will save $10 billion for the country in the next two years.

Speaking in a ceremony on indigenizing production of telecommunications equipment, the minister said that of the mentioned $10 billion, some $500 million is predicted to be earned through domestic production of telecommunications equipment, and $400 million via indigenizing production of car parts, of which $300 million has been already achieved.

“Today, all available potentials and capacities in the country are being used to materialize the target of domestic production and the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade will spare no effort in this due”, Rahmani further emphasized.

He said the country aims to produce electrical, automobile and telecommunications goods and double exports to 15 neighboring countries in order to reach a target value of $48 billion.

Back in October, Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said government officials should ban the import of goods that are also produced domestically.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – It’s been more than a year since that new Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar has been open and transiting for goods trade between regional countries.

Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar is open for regional trade. According to Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization, India’s Ports Global Limited has officially taken over the operations at phase 1 of the new Port in the southeastern port city of Chabahar.

Chabahar serves as Iran’s only oceanic port. It consists of two separate ports named Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti. Officials say the Indian company will operate phase 1 of Shahid Beheshti Port for a period of ten years.

After the inauguration of the Ports Global Limited office in Iran, the country leased the operational control of Shahid Beheshti port to India. IPGL conducts operations like loading and unloading, equipment supply and marketing at the port. Delegations from India, Afghanistan, and Iran visited the port to assess the infrastructure and investment opportunities as well as its commercial and transit facilities.

Officials also say the port offers the most tariff incentives for ports and maritime services among other ports in the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf regions.

Chabahar is the best spot for transit and trade between India, Afghanistan and other countries in the region, especially the CIS countries. India is participating in the development of the first phase of the Shahid Beheshti Port in cooperation with Iran under a 10-year lease.

The project to develop Shahid Beheshti Port began in 2007 through an investment amounting to $1 billion. The annual cargo tonnage of the port reaches as high as 8.5 million tonnes. India’s Ports global Limited took over the port operations in December 2018 and has been successfully handling cargo since then.

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