Steel and petrochemicals are expected to account for 50 percent of the objectives set under Iran’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Iranian officials said, highlighting the sectors’ pivotal role in boosting exports and activating trade opportunities in the region.
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Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong suggests Pakistan can expand the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan and Iran, boosting connectivity and trade, and accelerating the strategic shift from geopolitics to geo-economics.
Iran and Kenya will hold their seventh Joint Economic Committee meeting from Tuesday for two days in the Kenyan capital, chaired on the Iranian side by the agriculture minister.
The Financial Intelligence Center reports that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has invited Iran for the first time in six years to lead negotiations.
The Makran region, strategically located along the Oman Sea coast, is crucial for Iran's economic and geopolitical stability, offering opportunities for sustainable development, investment, and technical and engineering exports.
Liquefied propane was the primary non-oil product exported by Iran in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year, according to IRICA's head.
Iran has a trade surplus with Pakistan, exporting goods at 3.5 times the volume of imports, according to Hamidreza Karbalaei Esmaeili, Deputy for the Indian Subcontinent at Iran's Trade Promotion Organization.
Iran’s economy grew by 1.4 percent in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 20–May 20, 2025) compared to the same period last year, according to a report published by the Research Center of the Iranian Parliament.
Iran has posted a trade deficit of just over $1 billion in four months of current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2025), registering a 10% drop in value terms over the same period last year, IRICA announced.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has doubled its forecast for Iran's economic growth in 2025 to 0.6 percent, up from 0.3 percent in its previous report, despite the economic and geopolitical fallout from a 12-day war between Iran and Israel earlier this year.
The Iranian Parliament's Energy Committee's Energy Committee head praised the Oil and Gas Investment Fund's crucial role in restoring infrastructure damaged during the 12-day conflict.
India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal announced that trade talks with the U.S., EU, and Oman are in advanced stages, with the FTA with Oman nearly finalized and discussions with the U.S. and EU progressing swiftly.
The value of trade between Iran and India stood at $652 million in the first four months of 2025, India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry reported.
Italian energy group Eni said on Friday its second-quarter earnings fell 25% year-on-year as lower oil prices and a weaker dollar overshadowed a better-than-expected performance at its gas business.
India's petroleum product exports worth USD 15 billion to the European Union (EU) may be at risk as Brussels moves to restrict imports of Russian crude oil refined in third countries, economic think tank GTRI said.
Germany exported $454 million worth of non-oil products to Iran during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year, according to the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
Petrochemical products valued at $2.7 billion were exported from Bushehr province in the southwest of Iran during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21), according to a provincial official.
Iran's oil and petroleum products pipeline network is set to surpass 15,000 kilometers after major transmission projects are completed and commissioned.
Bilateral trade between Iran and Armenia has reached nearly $1.0 billion, reflecting deepening economic ties between the two neighbors, according to Iran’s ambassador to Yerevan.
initial economic growth figures released on Wednesday showed that Iran’s gross domestic product (GDP) had increased to 78,443.8 trillion rials (over $301 billion) in the year to March 20.
