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.
IME facilitates the trading of commodities and products through its markets.
[3] The Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) is the sole regulatory entity for the regulation and development of the capital market in Iran.
[5] 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.