TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Customs Administration announced that exports of Pharmaceuticals from Iran have exceeded $60mln in the first 7 months of the current Iranian year (March 21-October 22).
Iran sold 4,224 tons of pharmaceutical drugs with the total worth of $64,586,678. The products include 0.33 percent of the country's whole exports.
Iran exported 4,275 tons of pharmaceutical products during similar period last year which totaled $46,173,957.
The exports rose by 40 percent in terms of value.
Earlier this month, Iranian Vice-President Sorena Sattari underlined the country's high quality pharmaceutical products, and said the health ministry plans to expend exports of medicines to Russian up to $300mln in the near future.
"We have exported over $30mln of various types of medicines to Russia since March," Sattari said.
He added the country is conducting clinical tests on 7 medicines, and we can export $300mln of medicines to Russia.
The officials went on to say that sclerosis and cancer medicines are among medicines exported to Russia.