Head of East Azarbaijan Industry, Mine and Trade Department said the province is the glass hub of Iran, adding that it has considerably increased exports of the commodity in terms of value an volume.
"Over $620 million worth of glass has been exported during the last Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19, 2020)," Habib Aminzadeh said.
He noted that in line with increasing non-oil exports by 25% and reaching $4 billion, the affiliated companies can materialize their goals.
Aminzadeh added that two production units also exported about 60 percent of their products, including glass, mirror and reflex glasses, which was 300,000 tons valued at $620 million.
He called for taking some legal, logical and suitable decisions for increasing capacities and employment as well.
In relevant remarks earlier, a provincial official said that the exports from East Azarbaijan Province had considerably increased during last Iranian year.
"The exports of non-oil goods from East Azarbaijan increased by 68 percent," an official with the Customs Office of East Azarbaijan, Leila Owrangi, said.
She noted that altogether 2.55 million tons of goods were exported from the borders of the province, adding that Tabriz customs had the most share in the export of the non-oil exports.
Iranian officials started planning for policies to counter the US possible sanctions a year before US President Donald Trump entered into office in early 2017. The policies are now proving effective as economic indexes are indicating inefficacy of the US pressures.
Washington’s unilateral sanctions against Tehran began in November 2018, five months after US President Donald Trump withdrew from an international deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
Claiming that the bans were working properly, Trump tightened them in May 2019, only to see that Iran was finding new solutions to recoup the losses.
Early in July, Iranian Industry Minister Reza Rahmani said that despite US efforts to cripple Tehran’s economy, year-on-year comparison showed that the country’s domestic production increased in the first quarter of the local calendar year (March 21-June 21).
Early in January, Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said that the country's exports have outpaced imports despite the harsh US sanctions.
Iran is the only state in the world without foreign debt as the country's trade balance is now positive and exports have surpassed imports, Eslami said.
A great deal of development in the civil, water, electricity, gas and utility sectors have been made, and during the outrageous sanctions, the country has become a manufacturing workshop, he added.