EghtesadOnline: Iran’s non-oil trade with the UAE hit $16.83 billion in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018), registering a 21.18% rise compared to the year before, Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration’s statistics show.

EghtesadOnline: Head of Abadan Chamber of Commerce Masoud Khayyatzadeh held talks with Emirati private businesses in Dubai on Tuesday to address hurdles facing Iranian exporters to the UAE.

EghtesadOnline: Economic relations between Iran and the UAE, long bound by common interests in trade, has been strained over what some business figures, including the head of Iran Export Confederation Mohammad Lahouti, consider a result of political tensions.

EghtesadOnline: Iran exported $6.6 billion worth of goods to the UAE in the last fiscal year that ended March 20, 2017, registering a 35% increase compared with the year before, according to the Arabic-African Office of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran.