$11 Billion Allocated for Imports, CBI Says

The Central Bank of Iran allocated $11 billion for importing goods in one month since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), a CBI official said.

“Four billion dollars was for importing basic goods and medicine”, Mostafa Qamari-Vafa, head of the CBI public relations department, wrote on his social medial account on Friday. 

The CBI gave $7 billion for the import of other goods. It was not clear what the other goods would be.

Qamari-Vafa said the amount is five times the $2.3 billion earmarked in the corresponding period last year.