{"id":88578,"date":"2019-05-11T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88578"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:58:58","slug":"irans-non-oil-trade-with-sri-lanka-exceeds-140m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/11\/irans-non-oil-trade-with-sri-lanka-exceeds-140m\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Non-Oil Trade With Sri Lanka Exceeds $140m"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0 Financial Tribune<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Iran traded 256,551 tons of non-oil commodities worth $141 million with Sri Lanka in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019) to register a 53.58% growth in tonnage and 8.22% decline in value compared with the year before, latest data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s exports to Sri Lanka stood at 233,453 tons worth $51.11 million, up 69.50% and 28.33% in tonnage and value respectively year-on-year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka was Iran\u2019s 39th export destination during the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran mainly exported bitumen, non-alloy semi-finished iron\/steel products, urea and turbines to Sri Lanka during the 12-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In return, Sri Lanka exported 23,097 tons of goods worth $90.69 million to Iran, down 21.22% and 20.92% in tonnage and value respectively YOY.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka was the 35th exporter of goods to Iran during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imports mainly included tea, cans and coconuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0 Financial Tribune Iran traded 256,551 tons of non-oil commodities worth $141 million with Sri Lanka in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019) to register a 53.58% growth in tonnage and 8.22% decline in value compared with the year before, latest data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show. Iran\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}