Machine-Made Carpet Exports Exceed $280m

EghtesadOnline: About $287 million worth of machine-made carpets were exported from Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2017-18).

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17 June 2018

The main export destinations for these products were the neighboring countries of Afghanistan and Iraq, based on figures released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration. Close to $4.8 million worth of machine-made carpets were imported over the same period. Turkey with $2.5 million was the main source of carpet imports, IRNA reported.Some 94 million square meters of machine-woven carpets were produced in Iran last year. Accounting for 65.5% of domestic production, Isfahan is Iran’s machine-made carpet manufacturing hub, followed by Khorasan Razavi (12%), Mazandaran (8.2%) and Yazd (5.2%), according to Financial Tribune.