Iran's non-oil foreign trade during the first four month of the current fiscal year (March 21-July 22) stood at $28,915 billion.  Exports hit $14.605 billion during the four month to July 22 to re­gis­ter a 7,5% decline in US$ value year-on-year.  Imports amounted to $14.310 billion, down 6.6% in US$ value over last year’s correspon­ding period.  IRICA data also show that the exports and imports in Euro regis­te­red a growth of 1.2% resp. 2.2%.

Main Destinations of non-oil exports

Iran’s top export destinations were China with $ 3.627 billion, Iraq with $2.889 billion, Turkey with $2.360 billion, the UAE with $1.359 billion and Afghanistan with $733 million during the period under review.  By “non-oil”, IRICA refers to all commodities, except crude oil. Therefore, oil-driven products and byproducts, as well as petrochemical products, are still categorized as non-oil. 

Main Exporters to Iran

Major exporters to Iran during the first quarter of the current Iranian year were China ($3.450 billion) , the UAE ($2.257 billion), Turkey ($1.772 billion), India ($1.645 billion) and Germany with $678 billion.

Im ersten Halbjahr 2019 fiel der deutsch-iranische Außenhandel auf 788 Millionen Euro und damit im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum um 48%. Deutschland lieferte Wa­­­ren im Wert von 678 Millionen Euro (-48%); die iranischen Lieferungen nach Deutschand  lagen bei 110 Mio. Euro (-44%). 

Wichtigste Warengruppen bei den deutschen Lieferungen nach Iran im ersten Halbjahr  2019 wa­­ren Ma­­­schi­­nen, Apparate und mechanische Geräte (189  Mio. Euro),  pharma­zeu­ti­sche Er­­zeug­nisse (89 Mio. Euro), Getreide (59 Mio. Euro), elektro­tech­ni­sche Er­zeug­nisse (57 Mio. Euro) sowie optische, photo­gra­fi­sche usw. Er­zeug­nisse (56 Mio. Euro).

Die iranischen Liefe­run­gen nach Deutschland im Berichtszeitraum setz­ten sich u.a. zu­sam­­men aus geniessbaren Früch­­­­­­­ten und Nüssen im Wert von 31 Mio. Eu­­ro, pharma­zeu­­ti­schen Er­zeugnis­sen (17 Mio. Euro), ande­ren Waren tie­­ri­schen Ur­sprungs (Häu­te und Schafs­­därme) (15 Mio. Eu­ro) sowie Teppi­chen (13 Mio. €).

Eine Ta­bel­le mit 98 Wa­rengruppen kann angefor­dert werden.  Hauptursache für den Rückgang des Han­­dels zwi­schen Iran und Deutschland sind die seit November 2018 wieder vollständig reak­ti­vier­ten US-Sankti­onen.  Nach Angaben des Statis­ti­schen Bun­des­amtes, Revision: Nov. 2018 – April 2019    

The average goods and services Consumer Price Index in the 12-month peri­od ending Aug. 22 increased by 42% compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Statis­tical Center of Iran's latest report shows. SCI had put the average 12-month inflation rate for the preceding Ira­nian month, which ended on July 22, at 40%. 

Consumer prices registered a year-on-year increase of 42% in the Iranian month ending Aug. 22 compared with the similar month of last year. The index registered a year-on-year increase of 41% for urban areas and 46% for rural areas compared with the similar month of last year. 

EU-Iran Foreign Trade in the first six month of 2019 generated 2,561 mil­li­on Euro. The 28 EU coun­­tries exported goods worth € 2,143 million Euro to Iran and imported goods worth € 418 million.  Germany was the most important EU trade partner of Iran, with a trade volume of 778 million Euro, fol­lowed by Italy (452 million Euro) and the Netherlands (261 million Euro).

The European Union (EU28) export of goods to Iran stood at 2,143 million Euro, a de­crea­se of 53%  com­­pared with the first six month of 2018.  According to the la­test da­ta by Euro­stat, the sta­tis­tical office of the European Union, 32% of the EU ex­ports to Iran ca­me from Ger­­­many, which de­­­li­ve­red goods worth €678 million, that was 48% less than in the first half of the year 2018. Second (17%) was Italy with exports worth € 357 million (-54%), fol­lowed by the Ne­ther­­­lands (€ 252 million, -35%) and France (€ 168 million, -63%). 

From January till June  2019 the 28 EU countries imported goods worth € 418 million from Iran, (a de­crea­se of 93% compared with the first six month of 2018).  Major Iranian ex­ports to the Eu­­ro­pean Union (24%) go to Germany, which imported goods worth € 100 million from Iran (-43%), fol­­lowed by Italy (€ 95 million, -95%) and Belgium (€75 million, 34%).