Customs Office Terms Neighbors, Asia "Main Buyers of Iranian Goods"

During the period, China imported $2.119bln worth of goods from Iran, ranking first in procuring the Iranian products, Iran's Customs Office said in a report on Monday.

Iraq with $1.939bln, the UAE with $1.146bln, Afghanistan with $889mln and India with $796mln worth of imports are among other top buyers of Iran's products, respectively.

These five countries are importing 80% of the country's total volume of foreign exports and constitute 70% of the value of Iran's foreign trade.

The office had also reported on July 28 that the country’s non-oil exports saw an 18.5 percent growth during the first four months of the current Iranian year compared with the same period last year.

Iran’s non-oil exports during those four months (March 20 through July 22) amounted to $12.536 bln, which is a good record considering the unilaterally imposed sanctions by the western countries and the UN.

The county’s imports, on the contrary, dropped 27.26% to $12.909 bln during the same period.