Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:2
Iran's Exports to Pakistan Grow 60%
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has increased its exports to neighboring Pakistan in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2018-November 22, 2018), showing a considerable increase as compared with last year's corresponding period, an official announced on Monday.
"Iran's exports to Pakistan reached $860mln since the start of the new (Iranian) year until the end of the month of Aban (November 22)," Iran's General-Consul in Karachi city Ahmad Mohammadi said.
"Exports of goods from Iran to Pakistan have increased 60% in the current year compared with the past year," he added.
Tiles, ceramics, cement, mineral fuels, distillation products, fruits, nuts, organic chemicals, plastics, iron and steel, soaps, lubricants, waxes, and candles are among the goods Iran sends to Pakistan.
Senior leaders of Iran and Pakistan have vowed to enhance the values of trade exchanges between the two countries to the level of $5 billion.
A senior Pakistani trade official underlined in August that his country would not quit developing trade relations with Iran despite the re-imposition of sanctions against the Islamic Republic by the US.
"Sanctions will have no impact on Iran's trade with other countries and cannot hamper its progress," President of Iran-Pakistan Federation of Culture and Trade Khawaja Habib-ul Rahman said.
He underlined the re-imposition of the US sanctions against the Islamic Republic as an unjustified move, and said, "The economic situation of Iran is far better than the past and the new round of the US sanctions on Iran cannot hamper its progress."
Also, in September, Imran Khan voiced his country's willingness to broaden mutual cooperation with Iran in different fields.
"Pakistan is seeking enhancement of amicable ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Khan said.
The Pakistani prime minister underlined that Islamabad was looking for establishment of friendly relation with all its neighbors.
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