The report by Iran's Customs Office said that the country exported $20.618bln worth of non-oil goods and imported $26.483bln worth of commodities in the first 6 months of the current year.
The figures also showed that Iran's trade exchanges with the outside world comprised of 44% of non-oil exports and 56% of imports, showing a 2% increase in Iran's non-oil exports compared to the same period last year.
Iranian officials have underlined that the country plans to increase its non-oil exports to over $70bln in the current Iranian year.
Late in December, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lauded the country's growing non-oil exports, and said Iran's non-oil exports would equal its imports in the current Iranian year.
"God willing, non-oil exports will equal (Iran's) imports by the end of 1391 (march 19, 2013)," he said, adding, "That would be a great revolution in the country's economy."
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The value of the trade ties between Iran and the world states exceeded $47bln in the first half of the current Iranian year (started on March 20) despite the western sanctions against the country, an official report said on Wednesday.
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