SMEs Exports Rise 43% From March 21 to Oct. 7

Small and medium-sized enterprises based in industrial parks across the country exported an estimated $1.5 billion worth of products from the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year (started in March) to early October -- an increase of $450 million, or 43.27%, compared to last year’s corresponding period.
According to Asghar Masaheb, deputy head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization, 900 companies in the industrial parks exported goods during the period.
Iraq was the top destination with $320 million worth of imports, followed by Afghanistan with $216 million and Pakistan $51 million, IRNA reported.
Major exports by the SMEs were food products, home appliances, polymer and plastic material, chemicals, machined carpets and leatherwork.