A member of the board of directors of the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce Seyyed Hamid Hosseini PHOTO: File

Bagdad (IP) - A member of the board of directors of the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce reported an increase in Iran's exports to Iraq.

Iran PressMiddle East: Highlighting the increase of Iranian exports to Iraq, Seyyed Hamid Hosseini said about 3,000 trucks are  carrying  Iranian goods to Iraq. 

1,500 trucks go to Iraq through the borders of Kurdistan province, west of Iran, and about 1,500 other ones go to Iraq through other western Iranian borders that are open on Sundays and Wednesdays, Hosseini said. 

He referred to the figures of Iran's exports to Iraq and explained in the last 5 months, $ 2.406 billion worth of Iranian  goods  were exported to Iraq indicating that the average export of goods to Iraq was about $ 500 million per month.

The Iranian trade official also pointed to the export of gas to Iraq and said Iran's gas export level has got promoted and the product is exported to Iraq with full capacity. 215/203/211