Economy

More than 22,700 tons of jam, jelly and marmalade worth close to $37.4 million were exported in the last Iranian year that ended on March 20, 2017, according to data released by the Islamic…

Spring tea harvest in Iran has ended with the production of 44,300 tons of fresh tea leaves worth more than 1 trillion rials (over $26.7 million), registering a 9% increase compared with last year…

Iranians have a sweet tooth as per capita sugar consumption stands at 33 kg per year, six times more than the global average.

This was announced by a report recently published in a pamphlet…

As many as 3,400 projects in Iran’s industrial parks are expected to become operational by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018), the head of Iran’s Small Industries and Industrial…

A container ship carrying 300 TEU (twenty-foot container equivalent units) of rice from India’s Kandla Port in Kutch District of Gujarat docked at Iran’s Chabahar Port last week in a first such…

The government has approved a strategic plan for the development of the southern Makran Coast, setting guidelines to achieve sustainable development of the region and benefit its indigenous people…

In Iran, there is one civil servant for every 26 to 28 people whereas the international average is one for every 600 to 800 people, Iran Productivity Association announced.

The excessive…

Spokesperson of Iran’s Tire Producers Association, Mostafa Tanha, said that despite the domestic capacities to meet local tire demand, cheap Chinese competition continues to undermine local…

The CEO of Iran Khodro, the country's biggest car producer, said Tuesday that the first deliveries of the latest version of the Dena sedan model will be made to customers by mid-August.

Iran Khodro has expanded production at its subsidiary plant in the northwestern city of Tabriz. The country’s largest automaker said in a press release that the production rate will increase 33%…

A subsidiary of SAIPA which produces heavy and light vehicles is set to expand its market share via deals with foreign firms and offering state-backed financial incentives to truck drivers.

Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi has reiterated what has been stressed by many officials in the past few months that the ailing Iranian housing sector is emerging out of…

A delegation from the Central Bank of Turkey will soon meet their Iranian counterparts in Tehran to remove hurdles in the way of bilateral banking relations, particularly difficulties involving…

Iranian bank accounts in a handful of regional countries are being closed en masse due to reasons ranging from strained ties with Persian Gulf Arab states to Turkish foreign exchange policies,…

Bank Melli Iran, the nation’s biggest bank, has been allowed to draw up to $1 billion from the foreign exchange resources of the National Development Fund of Iran to support production, the bank’s…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index lost 96.40 points or 0.12% to end Tuesday trade at 80,511.5.

About 619 million shares valued at $42 million changed hands for the day.

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The Producer Price Index (using Iranian year to March 2012) stood at 236.2 in the Iranian month of Ordibehesht (April 21-May 21) compared with the previous month’s 236.3, suggesting that average…

Due to export duties levied on leather, salambor and wet blue in the fiscal 2012-13, the export of these products plummeted from around $200 million in that year to close to $38 million in the…

The government is set to oblige mine owners pay 1% of their revenues as tax to ameliorate the damage inflicted by their operations on the environment.

Naturally, miners are up in arms about…

Iran's information and communications technology sector has the capacity to employ one million people, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare said. "It is…

The average age of Iranian farmers stands at 53 years and if 60 is taken as the retirement age, the country will face a shortage of farmers in less than a decade.

Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht believes it is possible to triple cash subsidies paid to the poor.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration has revoked the ban it had imposed in May on imports of scrap metals from Iraq and Afghanistan at the request of the Trade Promotion…

Having won a reelection in a landslide, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is expected to prioritize economic reforms.

Ferrosilicon production is an integral part of the steel industry and its downstream sectors. Iran is currently producing nearly enough of the raw material to feeds its furnaces, but the ambitious…