Iran’s exports to China rose three percent in November 2025, even as total bilateral trade between the two countries declined in the first 11 months of the year, according to data released by China’s customs authority.Trade between Iran and China fell 24 percent year on year to $9.09 billion in the January–November period, down from $12 billion in the same period of 2024.Chinese exports to Iran dropped 22 percent over the 11 months to $6.233 billion, compared with $8.05 billion a year earlier. China’s imports from Iran also fell 27 percent to $2.857 billion, down from $3.95 billion in the comparable period last year.The trade balance for the 11 months stood at $3.376 billion in China’s favor, the data showed.Despite the overall decline, China’s imports from Iran increased three percent in November to $760 million, up from $735 million in the same month last year.By contrast, Chinese exports to Iran in November plunged 57 percent to $170 million, compared with $395 million a year earlier.Oil remains Iran’s most important export to China, though it is not reported in China’s official trade statistics.In late November, Mahmoud Najafi Arab, the Head of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (TCCIMA), in a letter to Abbas Araghchi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, while presenting a report on the achievements of the Tehran Chamber's delegation's visit to the Shanghai exhibition in China and the side meetings of this delegation, declared readiness to play an active role in organizing and facilitating the relations between the private sectors of the two countries. (ICE TEHERAN)

Fonte notizia: Tehran Times