The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade is planning to send a trade delegation to conduct a market survey in Qatar, amid the recent rift between Doha and four Arab states, namely Saudi Arabia…
Domestic Economy
Iran exported 1.178 million tons of food products worth $2.7 billion to more than 80 countries during the fiscal 2016-17, registering an 8% increase in value compared to the year before.
About $512 million worth of seafood and seafood products were exported in the last Iranian year that ended on March 20, the head of Iran Fisheries Organization said. “Close to $412 million worth…
Coal transportation through the railroads managed by Islamic Republic of Iran Railways’ Sharq (East) Department topped 51,000 tons in the Iranian month to May 21, up 51% compared with the…
The US International Trade Commission has determined, by a unanimous vote of 5 to 0, that revoking the US antidumping duty order on imports of raw in-shell pistachios from Iran would likely lead…
Close to 284 tons of different kinds of shrimps worth more than 3.8 billion rials (over $1 million) were exported during the first month of the current Iranian year (started March 21), the Islamic…
Each Iranian consumes 15-20 liters of bottled water per year on average, considerably low compared with the neighboring countries.
In Turkey, for instance, per capita consumption stands at…
Chairman of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization Mojtaba Khosrotaj is scheduled to visit Kenya at the head of a commercial, marketing and investment delegation from July 4 to 7, director general of…
Services exported in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017) stood at $13.28 billion, registering a 1.3% decline compared with the previous year, Trade Promotion Organization of Iran…
As Iranian officials are calling for dialogue to resolve a recent spat between Qatar on the one hand and Saudi Arabia and its regional allies on the other, Iranian businesses expect a boom, albeit…
Iran exported 147,000 tons of tomato paste worth $203 million during the last Iranian year (March 2016-17), up by 1% and 24.5% in value and volume respectively compared with the year before, Trade…
Domestic demand for raw vegetable oil stands at about 1.5 million tons per year, the manager of Oilseeds Project carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture said.
Iranian Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei said on Wednesday 60,000 people have enrolled in the state-run Internship Action Plan.
"The ministry aims to create 150…
The Cabinet has approved the issuance of 100 trillion rials ($2.67 billion) worth of securities to finance government projects. The decision was made in a Wednesday Cabinet meeting led by…
A high-ranking delegation from Malaysia will visit Tehran within a month. This was announced by Malaysian Ambassador to Iran Rustam bin Yahaya in a meeting with Iran Chamber of Commerce,…
The research arm of the Iranian Parliament has published a report detailing the economic performance of seven Iranian governments from March 1989-90 to March 2016-17.
More than 22,700 tons of jam, jelly and marmalade worth close to $37.4 million were exported in the last Iranian year that ended on March 20, 2017, according to data released by the Islamic…
Spring tea harvest in Iran has ended with the production of 44,300 tons of fresh tea leaves worth more than 1 trillion rials (over $26.7 million), registering a 9% increase compared with last year…
Iranians have a sweet tooth as per capita sugar consumption stands at 33 kg per year, six times more than the global average.
This was announced by a report recently published in a pamphlet…
As many as 3,400 projects in Iran’s industrial parks are expected to become operational by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018), the head of Iran’s Small Industries and Industrial…
A container ship carrying 300 TEU (twenty-foot container equivalent units) of rice from India’s Kandla Port in Kutch District of Gujarat docked at Iran’s Chabahar Port last week in a first such…
The government has approved a strategic plan for the development of the southern Makran Coast, setting guidelines to achieve sustainable development of the region and benefit its indigenous people…
In Iran, there is one civil servant for every 26 to 28 people whereas the international average is one for every 600 to 800 people, Iran Productivity Association announced.
The excessive…
Iran’s economy grew 8.3% in the last fiscal year (March 2016-17) compared to the year before, the Statistical Center of Iran's latest report shows.
The average age of Iranian farmers stands at 53 years and if 60 is taken as the retirement age, the country will face a shortage of farmers in less than a decade.
