HAMEDAN -- Managing Director of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research in Hamedan Province Abdol-Hossein Habibi announced that $528,960 worth of non-oil goods were exported from the province during the period January 21- February 19 this year.

He told IRNA that the export included raisins and biscuits and were dispatched to Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iraq, the UAE, Romania and Turkmenistan.

He added, "The goods weighed 85.9 tons, the bulk of which was raisins weighing 82.72 tons."

He recalled that 21 quality control permissions were issued for the export of the said items, of which 19 related to raisins.

He added that the non-oil goods exported from the province during the current Iranian year (started March 21, 2001) amounted to Rls.10 million.