GENEVA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Switzerland's exports to Iran grew by 24.7 percent year on year to CHF 249.9 million (256.2 million U.S. dollars) in the first seven months of 2017, Swiss media reported Tuesday.
"The positive trend for the export of goods, apart from precious metals, continued this year," Fabian Maienfisch, spokesman for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, was cited as saying.
In mid-March of this year, a trade agreement signed by the two countries came into force ending the 12 years of freezing since 2005.
In 2015, the world's six major powers and Iran signed an agreement on the Iran nuclear issue, following which Switzerland lifted some of its economic sanctions against Iran, making it easier for transfers of money to and from Iranian citizens or organizations.
