More than $480 million worth of aquatic products were exported during the past Iranian year (ended March 20), IRNA quoted managing director of union of fisheries cooperatives, Arsalan Ghasemi, as saying on Monday. “Close to 650,000 tons of a variety of aquatic animals were produced last year,” he added. Earlier, deputy agriculture minister, Hossein Salehi, announced tariff rates on aquatic exports to Eurasian Economic Union based on Preferential Trade Agreements with the member states have been reduced from 26 percent to 7 percent.
