“Despite sanctions, Iran has been, and still is, exporting goods to 100 countries,” Ahmad Sadeqi Golmakani noted on Tuesday.
The official added that Iran’s non-oil exports exceeded USD 41 billion during the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 19, 2012) and sanctions have failed to disrupt the country’s economic activities.
On Monday, June 4, Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mehdi Ghazanfari announced that the export of the country’s factory and agricultural goods has grown by 30 percent in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year.
“In this period, the volume of the country’s exports in factory and agricultural goods, excluding gas condensate and petrochemicals, hit USD three billion,” he added.
Meanwhile, Massoud Nasouri, the managing director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone said on May 28 that Iran has exported more than USD 1.2 billion worth of gas condensate and other non-oil products between April 20 and May 20, 2012.
China, Japan, the UAE, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan are the main destinations for Iran’s non-oil exports.
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