Mohammad Reza Modoudi put the volume of exports at 40 million tons, an increase of 12 million tons year on year, ISNA reported on Wednesday.
According to the official, non-oil exports from the country has experienced an upward trend in the current year so that nearly $11.5 billion worth of commodities have been exported since the beginning of the year.
Over the past few years, in a push for an oil-free economy, Iran has been trying to develop its domestic production and increase non-oil trade with its neighboring countries.
In July, Modoudi announced that the county’s non-oil exports has increased by 483 percent over the past 15 years.
In a statement published on TPO website on the occasion of the 15th establishment anniversary of TPO, Modoudi noted that the country’s annual non-oil exports is currently $44.3 billion, up $36.7 billion from $7.6 billion 15 years ago when TPO was established.
He added that non-oil exports to the neighboring countries has witnessed an even greater increase, with the figure jumping from $3.2 billion to $24 billion.
In June, Modoudi said that non-oil exports reached $8.4 billion in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year, up 8.9 percent compared to the same period last year.
Meanwhile, the country’s imports during the two-month period stood at $6.7 billion, down eight percent year on year.
The official also put the country’s exports of services at $1.6 billion, up 17 percent from a year earlier.
According to the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, the country’s non-oil trade stood at $4.87 billion in the first Iranian calendar month of Farvardin (March 21-April 20).
Meanwhile, non-oil trade registered a $1.5-billion positive balance in the past Iranian calendar year (March 2018–March 2019).