Golestan Exports Top $100m in Six Months

A total of 171,000 tons of goods worth $103.17 million were exported from Iran’s northeastern Golestan Province during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22), registering an 18% fall in weight but a 42% rise in value compared with the similar period of last year, according to a local customs official.
“The exports included polystyrene, cheese, iodine, different types of pipes and profiles, dates, copper wires, metal structures, fish feed and industrial milk powder,” Ebrahim Hosseini was also quoted as saying by IRNA, adding that 32 countries were destinations of these exports.
Turkmenistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, the UAE, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey were the main importers.