Tehran – Lombard export to Iran has grown by 27% in the first six months of 2016, surpassing the 266 million euro mark, 60 million more than the same period last year. Numbers that make Lombardy the leader in Italian exports to the Asian country, with a weight of 40.2% of the national total. More than half of the exports concerns machinery (53.4%), in one out of ten (9.5%), electrical appliances. 36.3% of Lombardy’s exports come from the area of Milan, then Monza and Brianza (24.3%), Bergamo (10.9%) and Brescia (8.3%). Lecco is the territory that grew more in a year, + 125% in the amount of over 14 million euro, almost all made up of metals and metal products. It emerges from an evaluation of the Milan Chamber of Commerce on ISTAT data on the second quarter of 2016 on the eve of departure of 25 Lombardy companies for a trade mission in Tehran on November 12. (9Colonne)
