EghtesadOnline: Increased lead exports in the first month of the current fiscal year (started March 21) over fluctuations in foreign currency market were a boon to producers but caused a shortage for local downstream industries such as battery producers, the head of Iran Society of Battery and Storage said.

EghtesadOnline: Annual premiums for 2017-delivery refined lead in Asia have softened compared with the year before as a result of an uptick in Iranian exports of the metal.