According to the portal of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA), Afghanistan, the country which was the top export destination for non-oil Iranian commodities, has fallen to second place recently.
Afghanistan accounted for 11 percent of Iran's total non-oil exports in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21). Tomatoes, apples, potatoes, sweets, and fruit juice concentrate were the top exported items to the neighboring country. Now, the deployment of Taliban militants in provinces and cities adjacent to the Iranian border has left Iranian exporters unsure about sending goods to the country.
If the conflict will be ongoing, even another month, experts claim Iranian traders will not reach 50 percent of their normal export volumes to Afghanistan this year.
