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Tehran, Kabul sign five MoUs
IRNA – Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday signed five memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on various joint economic cooperation attended by Iranian Agriculture Minister Mohammad-Ali Nikbakht, Iranian President’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi, and Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Economic Adviser of the Iranian President’s Special Envoy in Afghanistan Affairs Mohammad-Mehdi Javanmard-Qassab, said that according to the announcement of Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, trade between the two countries will reach $10 billion, IRNA reported.The official made the remarks on the sidelines of the signing ceremony of the five MoUs.
Taliban’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced, in a period of three to five years, trade between Iran and Afghanistan will reach from $1.6 billion to about $10 billion.
“There are many variables in this field, including the need to increase production in Afghanistan,” Javanmard-Qassab emphasized.
On November 4, Iran’s capital Tehran hosted an Iran-Afghanistan Joint Economic Committee meeting for the first time since the Taliban came to power.
Iran produces 13m tires in seven months
IRNA – Iranian tire-manufacturing companies produced 13.478 million tires with a total weight of 146,363 tons during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-October 22).
The number of sedan tires is 11.931 with a weight of 91,439 tons. Also, during the period, 802,890 van tire rings weighing 13,700 tons were produced. In addition, 446,000 truck tires and 298,534 tires for agricultural, road construction and industrial vehicles were registered, according to IRNA.
The total number of car tire products including bicycle, motorcycle and tube tires is 25.643 million with a total weight of 163,363 tons, the same as compared to the similar period last year.
The number of road construction and industrial tires increased by 41 percent, and the total number of sedan tire production decreased by five percent during the same period.