The headline says USD 7.75 million of saffron was exported “last year,” but the body of the archived customs report gives USD 75.744 million. The missing digit is important: this article preserves the original title while explaining what the underlying figures actually say.
The USD 7.75 million headline does not match the report
Iran Customs public relations was cited as the source of the data. According to the stored text, saffron was the highest-value export in the industrial and medicinal plants category, with exports worth USD 75 million and 744 thousand during the period.
That is roughly ten times the USD 7.75 million shown in the title. The body repeats the larger amount and fits it within an overall category total of USD 109.042 million, so the title appears to have lost a digit. Because the page has earned search impressions under its existing URL and title, both remain unchanged; the discrepancy is made explicit instead of silently rewriting the historical record.
Total industrial and medicinal plant exports
The customs summary put exports of industrial and medicinal plants at USD 109 million and 42 thousand for the reported period. Their total export weight was 21,919 tons.
The original English version says the category’s value and weight both declined from the comparable period a year earlier. Its percentage formatting was damaged in translation: it renders one change as 7.12% and another as 7.21%, while the Persian right-to-left decimal order may have been reversed. Those rates should not be treated as verified without the source table.
Saffron led the category by export value
At USD 75.744 million, saffron accounted for the largest stated share of the category’s export value. The report also showed a year-on-year decrease for saffron, but its percentage appears in the stored copy as a broken “21 / 7%” expression. The direction of change is clear; the precise rate is not.
These amounts are historical customs figures. “Last year” referred to the year before the original report, not the year before this page is being read. A modern comparison needs a named calendar or Iranian year, a defined customs period and the same commodity classification.
Other exports in the plant-products group
After saffron, the report listed cumin and its varieties as the next largest export by value at USD 12.441 million. Other medicinal and industrial plants contributed USD 5.584 million, followed by tobacco at USD 4.326 million and tragacanth and its varieties at USD 3.343 million.
The source said tragacanth exports increased while tobacco exports decreased, although it did not preserve the comparative quantities or rates in this English copy. The ranking should therefore be read as a snapshot of the reported period, not a current league table.
Destinations named for medicinal plant exports
The customs account separately named five destinations for medicinal plants:
- United Arab Emirates: USD 486,000
- Germany: USD 468,000
- Pakistan: USD 418,000
- Italy: USD 379,000
- France: USD 336,000
These five destination values do not equal the USD 109.042 million total for the broad industrial-and-medicinal-plants category. They appear to cover a narrower medicinal-plants subset, so they should not be presented as the leading destinations for all saffron exports.
Why category definitions matter
A customs category can contain products with very different weights and unit values. Saffron is light and high in value; tobacco, cumin and other plant materials may contribute much more physical weight. Comparing the category’s total tonnage directly with saffron’s dollar value would therefore be misleading.
Reliable comparisons also require consistent product codes. A change in which goods are included, or a comparison between a full year and a partial year, can create an apparent rise or fall that does not describe the same trade flow.
Where to look for newer export information
The Saffron Exporters Union’s official website publishes later monthly export summaries based on customs data. When using those figures, check whether weights are reported in grams or kilograms, confirm the stated period and compare like with like.
A current export value should never be inferred by adjusting the amounts on this page for inflation or exchange rates. Export value depends on shipped weight, grade, destination, contract price, packaging and customs reporting, not currency conversion alone.
How to read this archived saffron export report
The key figure in the body is USD 75.744 million in saffron exports within USD 109.042 million of industrial and medicinal plant exports. The recorded shipment weight for the broader category was 21,919 tons. Cumin, other medicinal and industrial plants, tobacco and tragacanth followed saffron in the value breakdown.
The USD 7.75 million title remains part of the page’s historical search identity, but it does not agree with the detailed customs values. For research or business decisions, use a dated primary customs table; for this archived article, the larger body figure is the internally consistent reading.
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