Details of Iran's foreign trade with Africa were announced
Customs spokesman: Our country's foreign trade with Africa during the first 7 months of this year amounted to 959 thousand 848 tons.
Explaining the situation of our country's foreign trade with Africa, Seyed Ruhollah Latifi, Customs Spokesman, said: "Africa, with 54 countries, is actually the second largest continent in the world. This continent with a population of 1.3 billion compared to With the global average, it has a high growth rate and therefore the African continent is considered as one of the potential future markets of the world. Of course, this continent has a small share of world trade and in fact the volume of African foreign trade is less than 3%. Composed of global trade. However, during the first 7 months of this year, Iran had trade with 27 African countries, the volume of this trade in terms of weight amounted to 959 thousand 848 tons and equal to 180 million 432 thousand 161 dollars. Although this volume of trade has taken place under the conditions of the oppressive US sanctions and the conditions of the global outbreak of the coronavirus, but Africa has a great potential to increase the volume of its trade with our country to a much higher level.
Secretary of the Customs Information Council added: The share of Iranian products exported to Africa was 951 thousand 549 tons equal to 160 million 113 thousand 452 dollars, while the amount of our country's imports amounted to 8 thousand 299 tons and equal to 20 million 318 thousand 709 dollars. have been .
Latifi noted: Iran during this period with Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Mali, Macau, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, Tunisia and Rwanda have had trade relations.
Latifi added: "Our country's most imports from Africa were from Zimbabwe with 723 tons of goods equal to 5 million and 755 thousand dollars, followed by Ghana with 5 million 556 thousand 480 dollars and South Africa with 3 million 59 thousand 656 dollars, while the most Our country's exports to Ghana with 196 thousand 578 tons and equal to 52 million 813 thousand 515 dollars, followed by Cameroon with 22 million 85 thousand 285 dollars and Kenya with 21 million 268 thousand 109 dollars.
Regarding the products and commercial goods exchanged with Africa, Latifi said: "Our country's exports to Africa include dough, milk, cream and dairy products, dates, food and paste, gypsum and cement, carbon, sheet metal sheets, construction equipment, glass, rods." Iron, aluminum, acids, pistachios, flowers for perfumery, licorice juice and extract, medical equipment and seeds and oily fruits.
Also, our country's goods imported from Africa include seeds, fats and vegetable oils, chlorine and detergent, spare parts for industrial vehicles, collage pads, packaging containers, medical equipment, sesame seeds, tobacco, industrial sheets and rolls.
* ILNA
