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Iran Ups Trade Exchanges with World States

TEHRAN (FNA)- The value of Iran's trade exchanges with the other world countries amounted to $23.7bln in the first three months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21), showing a 14.5% growth compared with the same period last year.
"The volume of Iran's trade exchanges with the other countries during the said period has increased $2.997bln compared with the same period last year and amounted to $23.730bln ," Head of Iran's Customs Office Abbas Memarnejad said on Sunday.

He noted that the volume of Iran's trade exchanges with the world countries amounted to $20.733bln during the same period in the last Iranian year, and mentioned that the increase this year was the result of the 43.91% hike in this year's non-oil exports.

Iranian officials have underscored that Iran has the capability to further decrease the role of oil in its budget revenues, and announced Tehran's plans to boost non-oil exports to $45bln this year.

"Creating 2.5mln job opportunities all across the country and increasing Iran's non-oil exports to $45bln are on the agenda of the government (this year)," Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said in the Northern province of Semnan in May.

Stressing that attaining the aforementioned goals needs hardworking and industriousness of the people and government, the Iranian vice-president praised Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's initiative in naming the Iranian new year (March 21, 2011 to March 20, 2012) as 'the Year of Economic Jihad'.

In a Nowrouz (Persian New Year) congratulatory message Ayatollah Khamenei called for concerted efforts by the Iranian nation and officials to prepare the grounds for a decade of economic growth.

Iran had earlier announced that it plans to boost its non-oil exports to $80bln within the next five years.

According to a cabinet approval signed and issued in March by a number of cabinet ministers who are also members of Iran's High Council for the Promotion of Non-Oil Exports (HCPE), the country's non-oil exports in the current Iranian year will raise to $43bln out of which $31bln will be gained through exporting goods and $12bln through exporting services.

The approval also predicted a gradual growth for Iran's non-oil exports in coming years, and said the country's non-oil exports will increase to $43bln, $50.5bln, $59bln, $69bln and $80bln in the next five years, respectively.

According to official reports, Iran's non-oil products are exported to 160 countries of the world. China, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Belgium are the main destinations and markets of the Iranian products.





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