Khorasan Razavi 8-month exports pass $600m

IRIB quoted the director of Khorasan Razavi Province’s Commerce Organization as saying that the exports show a 28 percent and a 36 percent growth in terms of weight and value respectively over the figures of the same period last year.

Ali Safarzadeh added that plastics, melamine, saffron, paints and resins, metals, machine-made carpets, and textile constitute the export-bound products that were sent to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, the UAE, Spain, Iraq, and the Netherlands.

According to Safarzadeh the province imported 500,000 tons of products valued at (about $245 million) in this period, indicating a 2 percent rise and an 8 percent fall in terms of weight and value respectively.

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