The Iran Mercantile Exchange (Persian: بورس کالای ایران, IME) is a commodities exchange located in Tehran, Iran. Established on 20 September 2007 from the merger of the Tehran Metal Exchange and the Iran Agricultural Exchange, IME trades in agricultural, metal and mineral, oil and petrochemical products in the spot market and gold coin in the futures market.
Commodities
IME facilitates the trading of commodities and products through its markets.
IME's Listed Commodities on Different Trading Floors
Main Group
Sub-Group
Commodities
Physical Market
Industrial & Mineral
Steel, Copper, Iron Ore, Aluminum, Zinc and rare metals concentrate, Gold bar
Grains Group: various kinds of corn, grain, wheat, rice, bran
Dried and Trans Products: various kinds of pistachio, date, raisins, saffron, cumin, tea, sugar
Oil Meals and Seeds Group: various kinds of oily seeds like soybean and oil cake seeds like soybean, colza, cotton seed, sunshade, Safflower cake, corn, palm
Trading in IME is based on open outcry auction using electronic trading platform, an interaction of bids and offers made by the buying and selling brokers.
1 Due to the reclassification of "cement" under "manufacturing and mining products", figures for 2010/11 have been revised. Previously, "cement" was classified under "oil and petrochemical products".