Iran | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2003 - 2018

Exports structure from Iran in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 68% (66 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 5.74% (5.55 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.24% (4.1 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 4.04% (3.9 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.77% (1.71 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.17% (1.13 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 1.11% (1.07 billion US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 0.873% (843 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 0.812% (785 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.725% (700 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof

What did Iran export in 2018?

Iran's Top Exports in 2018:

• 52% ($50 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 9.32% ($9.01 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 5.46% ($5.27 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 3.5% ($3.38 billion): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 2.26% ($2.18 billion): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
• 1.57% ($1.52 billion): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
• 0.889% ($859 million): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
• 0.888% ($858 million): 2713 - Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals
• 0.871% ($841 million): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 0.869% ($839 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous

Imports structure to Iran in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.6% (7.68 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.5% (4.35 billion US$): 10 - Cereals
• 8.87% (3.65 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 6.62% (2.73 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 3.82% (1.57 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.71% (1.53 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.66% (1.51 billion US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 3.41% (1.4 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.36% (1.38 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 3.11% (1.28 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did Iran import in 2018?

Iran's Top Imports in 2018:

• 5.12% ($2.11 billion): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 3.94% ($1.62 billion): 1006 - Rice
• 2.81% ($1.16 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 2.7% ($1.11 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 1.86% ($770 million): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
• 1.8% ($742 million): 8419 - Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric
• 1.67% ($690 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.58% ($654 million): 8545 - Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes
• 1.57% ($651 million): 2304 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soyabean oil