Exports - partners:
Japan 16.6%, China 11%, Italy 5.8%, South Korea 5.7%, South Africa
5.7%, Turkey 5.6%, Netherlands 4.5%, France 4.3% (2005)
Imports:
$42.5 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - commodities:
industrial raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods,
foodstuffs and other consumer goods, technical services, military
supplies
Imports - partners:
Germany 13.8%, UAE 8.3%, China 8.3%, Italy 7%, France 6.2%, South
Korea 5.4%, Russia 4.8% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$45.46 billion (2005 est.)
Debt - external:
$19.06 billion (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$408 million (2002 est.)
Currency (code):
Iranian rial (IRR)
Currency code:
IRR
Exchange rates:
rials per US dollar - 8,964 (2005), 8,614 (2004), 8,193.9 (2003),
6,907 (2002), 1,753.6 (2001)
note: Iran has been using a managed floating exchange rate regime
since unifying multiple exchange rates in March 2002