Iran announces remarkable increase in non-oil exports to Iraq

(IraqiNews.com) Iran announced that non-oil exports to Iraq increased by 35% from the last year of 2011. The Deputy Chairman of the Iranian Trade Development Foundation Kiumirth Karmanshahi announced in a statement “The increase of the non-oil exports from Iran to Iraq during the first three months of 2012 by 35% if compared with the last year in the same period.” “The size of the Iranian exports to Iraq reached during the first three months of this year $ 363 million while in the similar period of 2011 it was $ 8 million noting that “The Iranian goods exported to Iraq included the food industries, cement, construction materials and others,” Karmanshahi confirmed. “These commodities and the rest of the goods exported to Iraq show that Iraq is a significant strategic partner to Iran in the exports sector,” he concluded,”