TEHRAN - Trade delegations from 12 countries visited Iran during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21) to discuss ways for the expansion of trade ties with the Islamic Republic, according to an official with the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI).

Mir-Aboutaleb Badri, the TPOI’s deputy director for marketing affairs, said 14 delegations, comprising a total of 207 traders from 12 countries, traveled to Iran during the three-month period, a 133 percent growth in the number of delegations, compared to the same period last year.

Six delegations, comprising a total of 159 traders from 8 countries visited Iran in the same period last year, he added, the Tasnim News Agency reported on Sunday.

Delegations from Swiss, Germany, Austria, South Africa, China, Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Lebanon and Iraq explored trade potentialities in Iran and discussed development of trade cooperation with Iranian officials in the first quarter of this Iranian calendar year.

Trade delegations from across the world have visited Iran to discuss resumption of bilateral businesses since November 2013, when Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, Russia, France, Britain and China – plus Germany reached an interim nuclear deal in the Swiss city of Geneva, according to the Press TV.

The value of Iran’s non-oil trade reached $21.214 billion in spring, which corresponds to the first quarter of the Iranian calendar year, according to the Iran Customs Administration.  

Iran exported 25.061 million tons of non-oil products worth $10.867 billion in the three-month period. 

The country imported 8.845 million tons of non-oil goods valued at $10.347 billion during the mentioned period of time. 


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