Abdollah Bahrami, Chairman of the Committee on Carpet, Handicrafts, and Tourism of Iranian Chamber of Cooperative added that $420 million worth of handwoven carpets were included in export last year.

Making the remarks on Sunday in a meeting on reducing the country’s dependence on oil exports, Bahrami stressed that the carpet industry enjoys a huge capacity in Iran and can replace the country’s oil exports.

He went on to say that some two million weavers are active in the country and the total annual capacity stands at 6 million square meters of handmade carpets which can bring around $3 billion for the country.

He said that the main export destinations of Iranian handwoven carpet are Germany, the UAE, South Africa, Japan, and China.

Earlier, the head of the E-Commerce Development Center of Iran Ali Rahbari on Sunday has talked about the start of identifying the requirements and challenges ahead of designing and producing handwoven carpets in the country.

He pointed to the introduction of topics of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked with Iran National Carpet Center (INCC) and added, “training, promoting and institutionalizing the use of e-commerce in handwoven carpet industry, developing systemic infrastructures in order to manage commercial chain of handwoven carpet have been cited as three main topics of the MoU.”