KABUL, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's total trade in goods surged to nearly 14 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, marking a significant year-on-year increase, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on Monday.
"The country's overall trade volume stood at 13.93 billion U.S. dollars, with exports totaling 1.8 billion dollars and imports amounting to over 12.12 billion dollars," according to ministry spokesman Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad.
Key exports comprised fresh and dried fruits, saffron, herbal medicines, vegetables, minerals, and carpets. Major imports included petroleum products, oils, machinery, vehicles and apparatus, wheat and flour, natural gas, cotton textiles, vegetable oils, black cement, medicinal spices, rice, sugar, dairy products and eggs, cigarettes, raw materials for industrial factories, and new clothing, Jawad said.
Afghanistan's primary export destinations were India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kazakhstan, Iran, Türkiye, China, Iraq, and Tajikistan. The main sources of imports were Iran, the UAE, Pakistan, China, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and India, Jawad added.
For comparison, Afghanistan's total trade volume in 2024 was 12.42 billion dollars. ■
