Financial Tribune - A total of $30 million worth of hand-woven carpets were exported from Iran during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21- Oct. 22), the head of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives� Handicrafts and Tourism Commission said.

Abdollah Bahrami added that the country�s handmade carpet exports amounted to $420 million in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2019), ILNA reported.

�Currently, 6,000 people are working in the hand-woven carpet industry,� he said.

According to Bahrami, the UAE, China, Germany and South American nations are the main customers of Iranian hand-woven carpets.