Spokesman: Taliban Determined to Develop Trade Relations With Iran
TEHRAN– The spokesman for the Taliban Ministry of Commerce and Industry Abdul Salam Jawad Akhundzada on Sunday said that that $350 million worth of trade was exchanged between Iran and Afghanistan, and added that the Taliban is determined to expand trade ties with Iran.
Abdul Salam Jawad Akhundzada stated that $350 million worth of products were exchanged between Iran and Afghanistan in the first six months of the current year (from March 21 to Sept. 22).
In this period, the Taliban exported $5 million worth of products to Iran, he added.
Taliban imported products including gasoline, diesel, cement, and electricity from Iran, valued at $350 million, he noted.
Taliban government is trying to expand trade and economic activity between Iran and Afghanistan, the spokesman emphasized.
Earlier, Taliban Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in a talk with the Deputy Iran Ambassador to Kabul had called for increasing trade between the two countries.