KABUL, March 23 (Xinhua) -- The trade volume of Afghanistan reached nearly 13 billion U.S. dollars in the year of 1403 (in the Persian calender, which ended on March 20, 2025) and the major portion of the transaction is composed of imported goods, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Sunday.

"Afghanistan's export in 1403 reached 1.785 billion U.S. dollars; while its import was counted at 11.164 billion U.S. dollars," the state-run news agency Bakhtar cited Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, spokesman for the ministry, as saying.

Afghanistan's major export items include cotton, fig, raisin, carpet, precious and semi-precious stones, and the export destinations were largely Pakistan, Iran, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Iraq, Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates.

The import items include petrol, diesel, flour, liquid gas, medicine, cooking oil, rice, machinery and their spare parts, and are mostly imported from China, Turkmenistan, Russia, India, Malaysia and other countries. Enditem

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