Iran was the world’s eighteenth-largest steel exporter in 2017. In 2018, Iran exported 9.2 million metric tons of steel, a 24 percent increase from 2017. Iran’s exports represented about 2 percent of all steel exported globally in 2017. The volume of Iran’s 2018 steel exports was less than 14 percent of that of the world’s largest exporter, China. In value terms, steel represented 8.7 percent of the total amount of goods Iran exported in 2018. Iran exports steel to more than 120 countries and territories. The 10 countries highlighted in the map below represent the top markets for Iran’s exports of steel, receiving more than 200 thousand metric tons each and accounting for 88 percent of Iran’s total steel exports in 2018.