ECONOMY
Tiles & Ceramics
Iran traded $312 million worth of commodities with Turkmenistan during the 10 months to Jan. 20, according to Iran's commercial attaché to Turkmenistan.
Iran’s exports to the neighboring country hit $305 million, while Turkmenistan’s exports to Iran stood at $7 million.
Speaking to IRNA, Rahmatollah Khormali said Iran was Turkmenistan’s 13th export destination during the 10 months.
According to Khormali, the main commodities exported to Turkmenistan from Iran included potatoes, apples, sugar, cement, plastic products, construction materials, tiles and ceramics.
Chairman of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Hamid Zadboum said the value of Iranian exports to neighboring Iraq amounts to one-fourth of the Arab country’s total imports.
The European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers did not indicate that they intend to trigger a mechanism that could lead to the renewal of UN sanctions at talks in Vienna on Friday, China's envoy said.
Oftec, a trade organisation for the heating and cooking industries in the UK and Ireland, has released a proposed roadmap to decarbonise the heating of off-gas grid homes in the UK that rely on kerosine through the adoption of biofuels. Oftec chief executive Paul Rose spoke to Argus Biofuels editor John Houghton-Brown about the organisation's recommendations for a biofuels-kerosine blend for 1.5mn homes.
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati said on Saturday that his country and Oman are enjoying very close political relations which will bring about stronger economic ties, adding that he will have more meetings with Omani officials.
The 13th session of Iran-Uzbekistan Economic Commission is scheduled to be held in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Dec. 12-13, announced the head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, Hamid Zadboum.
Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Artashes Toumanian underlined willingness to help Iran further expand its economic ties and cooperation with the Eurasia Union members.