Customs House released figures of Iranian foreign trade over the past 10 months. According to the data, imports were 33.843 billion dollars, down by 22.32 percent in comparison with the preceding period last year. Non-oil exports were 35.613 billion dollars, down by 15.87 percent in comparison with the preceding period last year. The main items of non-oil exports were including oil gases, hydrocarbons in gas form, liquid propane and oil tar and basic buyers of the products were China (19%), Iraq (17%), United Arab Emirates (14%), Indien (7%) and Afghanistan (7%). Germany is importing less than 1% of Iranian Non-oil-Products.
The main items for imports are respectively corn for livestock amounted to 3.40 percent of total import values, wheat by 2.9 percent, Soyabeans by 1.48 percent, rice by 1.71 percent and spare parts for car assembling 1.61 percent. Main exporting countries to Iran were China (accounting for 25% of Iran’s total imports), the UAE (19%), South Korea (9%), Turkey (7%) and Switzerland (6%). After India (6%) Germany holds place 7 with 4% of the Iranian imports.