For first time, pomegranate juice exported to US

KABUL (Pajhwok): For the first time, Afghanistan has exported pomegranate juice to the United States, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Saturday.

On  its twitter page, MoCI informed about the export of pomegranate juice to the US and wrote that soft drinks were produced by a domestic company in Herat province.

The pomegranate juice production company also wrote on its Facebook page that for the first time, it exported “Shefa” carbonated drink to the US.

No details have been provided about the route of this shipment from Afghanistan to the US and any agreement between the two sides in this regard.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, also reported this development in a tweet.

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