Iran non-oil exports up 32% http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1303357

Iran exported 5.344 million tons of non-oil goods worth $2.882 billion in the first calendar month of Farvardin (ended April 20).The amount shows 32.49 percent and 8.5 percent increase in terms of value and volume, respectively.The United Arab Emirates, China, Iraq, South Korea, and India were the main destinations for Iranian-made goods.Iran also imported 2.371 million tons of goods worth 3.778 billion dollars in the mentioned period.The amount shows 18.92 percent and 19.19 percent increase in terms of value and volume, respectivelyThe United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, South Korea, and Belgium were the main origins of exports to Iran.The deputy director of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran had previously said that the country aims at $45 billion worth of non-oil exports in the current Iranian calendar year (to end March 20, 2012).

Iran, World’s 7th major cement producer in 2010: source http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1303353   The United States Geological Surveys (USGS) in its new annual report titled “Mineral Commodity Summaries 2011” named Iran as the seventh largest cement producer on the world in 2010.