Over 546 tons of handmade carpets, valued at around $55.4 million, were exported during the mentioned two-month period, showing a 7.4 percent increase in value, but a two percent decline in weight, the ISNA News Agency reported.
Qatar was the main importer of the carpets, accounting for $15.2 million of the total exports. Pakistan, Japan, Germany, and UAE were among other major importers.
Iran exported over $560 million worth of handmade carpets to 80 countries last year.
According to the Customs Administration data, carpet exports last year rose by 0.8 percent in value, but decreased by 15.4 percent in weight, compared to the year before.
Iran has developed plans to export as much as $1 billion worth of carpets in the current calendar year, said the head of the National Carpet Center on April 7.
“Carpets are of great importance in non-oil exports of the Islamic Republic,” Baqer Aqa-Alikhani said, adding that boosting carpet exports to UAE and China has been highlighted, the Mehr News Agency reported.
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