Financial Tribune - Export of petroleum products including mazut, diesel and gasoline has hit a trough over the past few days, spokesman of the Petroleum Products Exporters Union said.

�Domestic demand for oil derivatives is rising and neighbors, including Iraq, have stopped their imports due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),� Hamid Hosseini was quoted as saying by ILNA Saturday.

According to the official, Turkey, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iraq have suspended imports of petroleum products from Iran from last week.

�Iraq�s Kurdistan region limited import for three days. However, as soon as prices rose and demand increased, it resumed oil derivatives imports from Iran.�