Seventy-three percent of Iran-Turkey bilateral trade went down
According to official Turkish statistics, in the first half of 2020, Iran and Turkey had about $ 1 billion in trade in goods, which compared to the same period in 2019, was accompanied by a significant decrease of seventy-three percent. During this period, Iran's exports to Turkey have decreased by about eighty-five percent and Iran's imports from Turkey have also decreased by forty-five percent.
According to the Iran International Stone Exhibition, the Tehran Chamber of Commerce in a report examines Iran's trade with Turkey in the first half of 2020. According to official Turkish statistics, in the first half of 2020, Iran and Turkey had about $ 1 billion in trade in goods, which compared to the same period in 2019, was accompanied by a significant decrease of seventy-three percent. During this period, Iran's exports to Turkey fell by about eighty-five percent and Iran's imports from Turkey fell by forty-five percent.
The main reason for the decline in the value of Iran's exports to Turkey has been the decline of more than ninety-nine percent of Iran's oil exports to this country; More than seventy-six percent of the eighty-five percent drop in Iran's exports to Turkey belongs to this commodity group. The highest value of Iran's exports to Turkey is related to the thirty-ninth chapter of the tariff book (plastic and its components) and the highest value of its imports is related to the eighty-fourth chapter (hot water boilers, machinery and mechanical devices, its components and parts). ) Is dedicated.
According to official Turkish statistics, in the first half of 2019, trade between Iran and Turkey was about three and nine billion dollars, of which about one and two billion dollars were Turkish exports to Iran and two to seven billion dollars were Turkish imports from Iran. . In the first half of 2020, Turkey's trade with Iran decreased by about seventy-three percent compared to the same period in 2019 and reached about one billion dollars. During this period, Iran's imports of goods from Turkey decreased by forty-four percent to six hundred and fifty-two million dollars; At the same time, Iran's exports to Turkey have decreased by about eighty-five percent and reached four hundred and seventeen million dollars.
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