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Iranian Exports to the Central Asian Countries Have Fallen

Abrare Eqtesadi (Morning Daily)
Apr. 12, 2000, No. 531

Summary: The value of the Iranian non-oil exports to the Central Asian countries in the first three quarters of 1999 fell by 63 million dollars in comparison with the same in 1998 and leveled off at 244 million dollars.

Text: According to the Public Relations Office of the Iranian Customs, the non-oil exports of Iran to the Central Asian countries also depicted a decrease in the tonnage exported. For the first three quarters of 1998 an aggregate of 621,000 tons of goods were exported to the aforementioned countries, while in 1999, the total tonnage of goods exported reached 571,000 tons in the first three quarters. The biggest fall in non-oil exports to Central Asian countries was in connection with Kazakhestan, which showed a fall of 7.43 percent.

Based on the statistics released by the IRI Customs, the value of the Iranian non-oil exports to Kazakhestan for the first three quarters of 1998 was 24,544,000 dollars. The figure dropped to 13,668,000 dollars in 1999 for the same period.

Turkeministan, with a total import of 80,354,000 dollars from Iran in the first three quarters of 1999 was by far the biggest customer of Iranian non-oil goods in Central Asia. Azerbyjan, Armenia, and Uzbekistan rank respectively after Turkeministan in this regard.

The value of the Iranian exports to Azerbyjan Republic for the same period was 56,164,000 dollars. The figure shows a drop of 38,506,000 (?) dollars In comparison with the value of exports for the similar period in the year before last. Imports from Iran during the first three quarters of 1998 for Armenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhistan and Georgia were 33,574,000 dollars, 32,033,000 dollars, 13,744,000 dollars, 13,668,000 dollars, 10,744,000 dollars and 4,612,000 dollars respectively. The IRI Customs statistics indicate that the imports of Iranian goods to Turkeministan, Armenia and Girgizistan were bolstered in the first three quarters of the last year in comparisson with the same in 1998.

Regional experts, in their reference to the transit of 3-4 million dollars of consumer goods through Iran to the Central Asian countries and Georgia, regard the fall in these countries' imports from Iran considerable. According to these experts, instability in the foreign trade laws and regulations, inattention of the officials, major Iranian businessmen to the Central Asian countries and Georgia's markets and the absence of a suitable banking system to facilitate trade are among the main reasons for the slump in the non-oil export goods of Iran to the aforementioned countries.

Iranian Exports to for the first three quarters of 1998

Iranian Exports to the Central Asian Countries Central Asian countries for the first three three quarters of 1999