Mehdi Zaighmi, during a specialized meeting to review the cooperative sector's export development solutions, noting that this organization is considered the country's non-oil export base, said: With the change in approach that the 13th government created in the past 2 years, non-oil exports have further developed.
He said: The Trade Development Organization is trying to pave the way for the export of non-oil products by using existing tools and activating new markets.
Dighmi continued: In this regard, the presence in the market of African countries, which had not been paid attention to before, has been put on the agenda. Over the past two years, our exports to these countries have increased considerably.
Stating that some neighboring countries' exports to Africa reach around $30 billion, he said: We have the capacity to reach this figure, provided we work hard and remove some obstacles.
The head of the Trade Development Organization said: Paying attention to the export of new, higher value-added product groups, which are often produced by the private sector, is one of the main priorities of the Trade Development Organization.
These goods bring more to the country, and the 13th government's plan is to export more value-added goods.
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