US President Donald Trump on Monday said any country that does business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on trade with the US, as Tehran grapples with its most substantial anti-government protests in years.
Iran, a member of the OPEC oil producers group, exported products to 147 trading partners in 2022, according to the most recent data from the World Bank.
Fuel is Iran’s biggest export item by value, while major imports include intermediate goods, vegetables, machinery and equipment.
China is Iran’s largest trading partner. Iranian exports to China amounted to $22 billion in 2022, with fuels accounting for more than half of the total, according to the World Bank. Imports from China stood at $15 billion.
In 2025, China bought more than 80% of Iran’s shipped oil, according to data from Kpler, an analytics firm. Iranian oil has a limited pool of buyers because of US sanctions that seek to cut off funding to Tehran’s nuclear programme.
India’s total bilateral trade with Iran stood at $1.34 billion for the first 10 months of 2025, according to India’s commerce ministry.
Major Indian exports to Iran include basmati rice, fruits, vegetables, drugs and other pharmaceutical products.
Turkish exports to Iran were $2.3 billion in full-year 2025, while imports were $2.2 billion over 11 months of the year, according to sector and official data sources.
Iran’s exports to Germany stood at around 217 million euros in the first eleven months of 2025, an increase of 1.7%, according to data from the state-owned international economic promotion agency Germany Trade & Invest.
German exports to Iran fell by a quarter to 871 million euros over the period.
South Korea’s exports to Iran between January and November 2025 were marginal at $129 million, while imports stood at $1.6 million during the same period, according to data from the Korea International Trade Association.
Japan imported modest amounts of fruit, vegetables and textiles from Iran and shipped some machinery and vehicle engines there, according to the latest trade data from Japan that goes through November 2025.
