BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 13. Products totaling 71,000 tons valued at $159 million were exported via the customs of Zanjan Province, located in western Iran, in the first half of the current Iranian year (from March 21 through September 22, 2025), Zeyn-ul-Abedin Ganj-Khanlou, the Director General of the Zanjan Province Customs Office, told local media, Trend reports.
According to him, during this period, the products were exported to 22 countries, including Türkiye, Iraq, and Turkmenistan.
Ganj-Khanlou added that in the same period, the exports consisted of zinc ingots, transformers, metal, dairy products, dates, and raisins.
The customs official said that in the first half, 120,000 tons of products (mainly equipment for production facilities, raw materials, tobacco, and others) worth $218 million were imported through the province's customs from 21 countries, mainly Türkiye, the UAE, Switzerland, and Germany.
The Iranian Customs Administration's data shows that during the first half of the current Iranian year, Iran's non-oil exports amounted to 75 million tons worth $25.9 billion.
Compared to the same period last year (from March 20 through September 21, 2024), non-oil exports rose slightly in value and by six percent in weight.
The administration's data also shows that during the reporting period, Iran's product imports amounted to 18.8 million tons worth $28.4 billion.
In juxtaposition to the corresponding timeframe from the previous annum, the import metrics exhibited a contraction of 15 percent in monetary valuation while simultaneously experiencing an uptick of two percent in volumetric weight.
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