(SHADA: TEHRAN) - The volume of goods exported via the Iranian Northern Province of Semnan customs offices has exceeded 108 million dollars in nine months since the start of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21,, 2013), a senior provincial customs official said on Saturday.

From March 21 to December 21, 382,709 tonnes of products valued at USD 108.866 million were traded abroad, up 27 percent in weight from a year earlier, the Head of Semnan Customs Administration Aliakbar Shamani noted.

Cement, copper, lead ingots, detergent powders, copper cables, bathroom faucets and sanitary ware, steel profiles, automobile paints, polystyrene disposable containers and plastic bags constituted the main items exported from Semnan to Iraq, Afghanistan and some other Middle Eastern countries, said the Iranian official.

Shamani went on to underline that during the aforesaid period some 46.741 million dollars worth of commodities (19.632 thousand tonnes) were also imported into the Islamic Republic via the Province's customs offices, down by 44 percent in weight and 28 percent in value compared to the same period last year.

Machinery, PVC sheets, CNG regulator parts, silicon bricks, cotton, acrylic fibres, aluminium foils, gray back cardboards, refrigerant gases and colour additives were the main items imported to the country mainly from Italy, Spain, the UAE, Turkey, Germany, China, Japan and Uzbekistan.

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