Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2023
Timeseries: 194 million
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Afghanistan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

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The value of merchandise exports from Afghanistan totalled $ 870 million in 2019. Overall commodity exports from Afghanistan decreased by 1.58% compared to 2018. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 14 million (the value of merchandise exports from Afghanistan amounted to $884 million in 2018)

Afghanistan's exports 2019 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Afghanistan in 2019:

  • India with a share of 47% (410 million US$)
  • Pakistan with a share of 34% (298 million US$)
  • China with a share of 3.56% (31 million US$)
  • Turkey with a share of 2.88% (25 million US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 2.86% (24 million US$)
  • Iran with a share of 1.72% (15 million US$)
  • Iraq with a share of 1.66% (14.5 million US$)
  • Germany with a share of 1.34% (11.7 million US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 1.08% (9.42 million US$)
  • Tajikistan - 5.08 million US$

Exports structure from Afghanistan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 44% (386 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  • 13.2% (115 million US$): 13 - Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
  • 9.27% (80 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
  • 7.99% (69 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 6.46% (56 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
  • 4.97% (43 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  • 3.16% (27 million US$): 52 - Cotton
  • 2.85% (24 million US$): 57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings
  • 2.18% (19 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
  • 1% (8.78 million US$): 10 - Cereals

What did Afghanistan export in 2019?

Afghanistan's Top Exports in 2019:

  • 14.9% ($130 million): 0806 - Grapes, fresh or dried
  • 13.2% ($115 million): 1302 - Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products
  • 11.5% ($100 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
  • 9.84% ($85 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
  • 7.98% ($69 million): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
  • 4.08% ($35 million): 0703 - Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled.
  • 3.37% ($29 million): 0909 - Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries
  • 3.03% ($26 million): 0910 - Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices
  • 2.85% ($24 million): 5701 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings, knotted, whether or not made up
  • 2.77% ($24 million): 0702 - Tomatoes, fresh or chilled

The value of merchandise imports to Afghanistan totalled $ 8.56 billion in 2019. Merchandise imports to Afghanistan increased by 15.6% compared to 2018. Goods imports grew up by $ 1.16 billion in 2019 (the value of merchandise imports to Afghanistan was equal to $7.4 billion in 2018)

Afghanistan's imports 2019 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Afghanistan in 2019:

  • Iran with a share of 14.5% (1.24 billion US$)
  • China with a share of 13.9% (1.19 billion US$)
  • Pakistan with a share of 12.8% (1.1 billion US$)
  • USA with a share of 9.14% (783 million US$)
  • Turkmenistan with a share of 8.05% (690 million US$)
  • Kazakhstan with a share of 6.09% (522 million US$)
  • India with a share of 5.29% (453 million US$)
  • Uzbekistan with a share of 5.05% (433 million US$)
  • Malaysia with a share of 3.74% (320 million US$)
  • Turkey with a share of 3.39% (291 million US$)

Imports structure to Afghanistan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 22% (1.94 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 6.91% (592 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
  • 5.31% (455 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
  • 5.12% (438 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 4.56% (390 million US$): 68 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
  • 4.53% (388 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 4.18% (358 million US$): 53 - Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabric of paper yarn
  • 4.18% (358 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  • 3.62% (310 million US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
  • 2.85% (245 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Afghanistan import in 2019?

Afghanistan's Top Imports in 2019:

  • 9.32% ($799 million): 2703 - Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
  • 9.23% ($791 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
  • 6.59% ($564 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
  • 4.47% ($383 million): 1518 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats, oils and their fractions; boiled, oxidised, dehydrated or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading no. 1516, inedible mixtures or preparations of fats, oils or their fractions, n.e.c. in chapter 15
  • 4.24% ($364 million): 6801 - Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate)
  • 4.13% ($354 million): 5309 - Woven fabrics of flax
  • 2.8% ($240 million): 9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
  • 2.77% ($238 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
  • 2.51% ($215 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form

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Afghanistan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019