Iran | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2000 - 2011

Exports structure from Iran in 2011 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 70% (92 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 11.3% (14.7 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 2.72% (3.55 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.44% (3.18 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.53% (2 billion US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 0.782% (1.02 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 0.766% (1 billion US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 0.656% (857 million US$): 57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• 0.652% (852 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.652% (851 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof

What did Iran export in 2011?

Iran's Top Exports in 2011:

• 64% ($84 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 4.24% ($5.54 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.58% ($2.07 billion): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 1.28% ($1.67 billion): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
• 0.865% ($1.13 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
• 0.824% ($1.07 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
• 0.792% ($1.03 billion): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 0.76% ($992 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 0.605% ($789 million): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites

Imports structure to Iran in 2011 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.6% (12.7 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 17% (11.6 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 11.8% (8.11 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 5.56% (3.79 billion US$): 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
• 4.23% (2.89 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.93% (2.68 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.72% (2.54 billion US$): 10 - Cereals
• 2.51% (1.71 billion US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.19% (1.49 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.14% (1.46 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

What did Iran import in 2011?

Iran's Top Imports in 2011:

• 4.19% ($2.86 billion): 7206 - Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading 72.03)
• 2.36% ($1.61 billion): 7208 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated
• 1.89% ($1.29 billion): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 1.63% ($1.12 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
• 1.48% ($1.01 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
• 1.42% ($975 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.29% ($883 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.23% ($844 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
• 1.22% ($837 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars