Trade between Iran and EU member states during the first five months of 2019 stood at €2.05 billion to register a 76.31% plunge compared with last year’s corresponding period.
Iran’s trade with Cyprus and Bulgaria increased by 75.63% and 29.57% respectively. These were the only EU members to experience an increase in commercial exchanges with Iran over the period, as those with the remaining 26 EU member states declined.
Trade with Greece (€19.24 million), Croatia (€2.89 million), Luxembourg (€129,374), Spain (€98.24 million) and France (€144.92 million) saw the sharpest declines of 97.56%, 95.36%, 94.62%, 92% and 88.39% respectively.
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