‘Goods Worth $167 Million Exported To Afghanistan From Dogharoun Customs In 9 Months’

Seyyed Hassan Rahimizadeh, Director General of Dogharoun Border Customs in Taybad, announced that since the beginning of 2024 till the end of December, more than $167 million of goods were exported from the Dogharoun Customs to Afghanistan.

Rahimizadeh said, "These statistics show an increase of 50 percent as compared to last year."

According to Iranian media outlets, the director general of Dogharoun Taybad Border Customs, referring to the transit of goods to this border, announced that this year, more than 451,000 tons of goods have been exported from the Dogharoun border to Afghanistan, which represents an increase of 33% compared to last year.

According to him, construction materials, gasoline and liquefied natural gas are among the most important items exported to Afghanistan.

He also announced the transfer of more than 804,985 tons of goods worth $3.31 billion from other countries to Afghanistan through Dogharoun, adding that this figure shows an increase of 150 percent in terms of weight.

Regarding imports from Afghanistan through this border, Rahimizadeh said that since the beginning of this year, more than 11,000 tons of goods worth $14 million have entered the Dogharoun border from Afghanistan. Oilseeds and building stones are among the items imported from Afghanistan to Iran.

The Director General of Dogharoun Border Customs described this border as a "golden gate" for trade and transit of goods and one of the busiest land crossings of the Islamic Republic in the field of goods and passengers.

He added that at least 4,000 people, including drivers, passengers, and employees of various administrative and service sectors, travel through the border daily, and more than one million passengers travel legally between Iran and Afghanistan annually.

The Dogharoun border customs is located 18 kilometres from the city of Taybad and borders Afghanistan.