TEHRAN: Iran’s first specialized exhibition on oil, gas, petrochemical, water, electricity and construction industries as well as technical and engineering services, dubbed “Iran Project”, is scheduled to be held in Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku from November 11 to 13.
The exhibition is aimed at boosting Iran’s non-oil exports, according to the official website of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.
Azerbaijan was the 12th biggest importer of Iranian non-oil goods in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Septemebr 22), according to the Iran Customs Administration.
Iran exported $132.835 million of non-oil goods to Azerbaijan and imported $10.720 million of non-oil goods from the country in the six-month period.
Azerbaijan was also the 12th leading importer of Iranian non-oil goods in the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, with importing $435.347 million of non-oil goods from Iran and exporting $22.22 million of non-oil goods to the country.
In 2014, Azerbaijan was the second biggest export market of Iranian non-oil goods after Turkmenistan among the the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
