BUSHEHR -- Some 11,174 tons of non-oil goods were exported from Bushehr Province, in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2002), said a local official.

The director-general of the provincial branch of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, Saeed Qodsi, told IRNA on Saturday that the goods exported were valued at Rls.5,359 billion.

Dates, raisins, date juice, canned fish, dried apricots, chewing gum, salt, pickled cucumber, tomato paste, sanitary products and fishing lines were among the commodities exported from the province.

The goods were exported to Persian Gulf littoral states, Russia, United States, Norway, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Syria, Macedonia, Malaysia and Georgia.

"Total exports during the period show a 88 percent decrease in value compared to those of the same period in the previous year," Qodsi said.