Iran | Imports and Exports | World | Organic chemicals | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2003 - 2018
The value of exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" from Iran totalled $ 4.1 billion in 2018. Sales of commodity group 29 from Iran went up by 3.8% compared to 2017: exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" went up by $ 150 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 29 from Iran amounted $3.95 billion in 2017)
Exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" amounted to 4.24% of total exports from Iran (cumulative merchandise exports from Iran totalled $ 96 billion in 2018). The share of commodity group 29 in total exports from Iran increased by 0.512 p.p. compared to 2017 (it was 3.73% in 2017 and cumulative exports from Iran were equal to $ 105 billion).
Where does Iran export Organic chemicals?
Top export destinations of "Organic chemicals" from Iran in 2018:
- China with a share of 54% (2.21 billion US$)
- United Arab Emirates with a share of 19.5% (803 million US$)
- India with a share of 14.5% (598 million US$)
- Iraq with a share of 3.36% (137 million US$)
- Afghanistan with a share of 2.03% (83 million US$)
- Oman with a share of 1.67% (68 million US$)
- Italy with a share of 1.03% (42 million US$)
- Korea - 32 million US$
- Japan - 31 million US$
- Other Asia, nes - 14.3 million US$
Exports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - from Iran in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 53% (2.18 billion US$): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 20% (859 million US$): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
- 15.9% (655 million US$): 2901 - Acyclic hydrocarbons
- 3.83% (157 million US$): 2932 - Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
- 3.05% (125 million US$): 2909 - Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, ketone peroxides (chemically defined or not); halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, nitrosated derivative
- 0.677% (27 million US$): 2917 - Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 0.651% (26 million US$): 2929 - Compounds with other nitrogen function, n.e.s. in chapter 29
- 0.388% (15.9 million US$): 2915 - Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 0.334% (13.7 million US$): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 0.223% (9.17 million US$): 2939 - Alkaloids; natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
The value of imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" to Iran totalled $ 1.38 billion in 2018. Sales of commodity group 29 to Iran went up by 2.59% compared to 2017: imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" went up by $ 35 million (the value of imports of commodity group 29 to Iran was equal to $1.35 billion in 2017)
Imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" accounted for 3.36% of total import flow to Iran (in 2018, total imports to Iran amounted to $ 41 billion). The share of commodity group 29 in total imports to Iran increased by 0.743 p.p. compared to 2017 (it was 2.61% in 2017 and cumulative imports to Iran were equal to $ 51 billion).
Where does Iran import Organic chemicals from?
Top trading partners (import of "Organic chemicals") of Iran in 2018:
- China with a share of 28% (396 million US$)
- United Arab Emirates with a share of 19.3% (268 million US$)
- India with a share of 12.5% (173 million US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 6.74% (93 million US$)
- France with a share of 5.89% (81 million US$)
- Korea with a share of 5.35% (74 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 4.04% (56 million US$)
- Turkey with a share of 3.27% (45 million US$)
- Luxembourg with a share of 2.57% (35 million US$)
- Italy with a share of 2.15% (29 million US$)
Imports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - to Iran in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 8.16% (113 million US$): 2941 - Antibiotics
- 7.9% (109 million US$): 2936 - Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent
- 7.2% (99 million US$): 2929 - Compounds with other nitrogen function, n.e.s. in chapter 29
- 7.1% (98 million US$): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 6.14% (85 million US$): 2942 - Other organic compounds
- 6.06% (84 million US$): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
- 5.82% (80 million US$): 2930 - Organo-sulphur compounds
- 4.98% (69 million US$): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 4.84% (67 million US$): 2922 - Oxygen-function amino-compounds
- 4.42% (61 million US$): 2915 - Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
