"The level of trade exchanges between Iran and Afghanistan reached $2 billion over the past year Iranian Calendar (starting at March 21, 2016)," Spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industries Musafer Qoqandi said.
He reiterated that there has been a considerable boost in Tehran-Kabul economic relations over past three years, specially after the nuclear deal between Tehran and major world powers.
"This shows a twofold rise in the volume of trade exchanges between the two neighboring nations," Qoqandi added.
He reiterated that Iran and Afghanistan have also expanded their relations in other areas in the past three years, and said, "Construction of Khaf-Herat railway project is an example."
In relevant remarks in early April, Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Spokesman Seyamuddin Pesarlai underlined that Iran has turned into his country's biggest trade partner.
"Iran is now Afghanistan’s biggest trade partner with trade exchanges between the two countries hitting $1.8 billion,” Pesarlai said.
The senior Afghan trade official underlined that 80 percent of the transactions relates to imports from Iran and the rest is related to the export to the country.
Pesarlai, meantime, pointed to the 50 percent decrease in Afghanistan-Pakistan trade ties, and said that the two countries previously had more than $2 billion trade exchanges, but now it has dropped to $1 billion.