Iran accounts for 25% of imports into Afghanistan: official
Iran's commercial attaché to Afghanistan put Iran’s share in Afghanistan’s import market at 25%, saying Afghanistan supplies over 80% of its needs via imports, and 25% of products imported by the country is supplied by Iran.
Goods supplied from Iran account for a fourth of all imports into Afghanistan, according to a trade attaché in the Iranian embassy in Kabul.
Hossein Rustayi said on Wednesday in a gathering in Tehran that Iran had exported $724 million worth of goods and commodities to Afghanistan in the four months of this year 1403 in the Iranian calendar (March 21 to July 22, 2024), showing up 28% compared to the same period last year.
Rustayi said that Afghanistan relies on import for 80% of its needs and Iran has been a main supplier of goods to this country.