Afghanistan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2005 - 2016

Exports structure from Afghanistan in 2016 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 37% (221 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 14.3% (85 million US$): 13 - Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
• 10.8% (64 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 6.53% (38 million US$): 57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• 5.78% (34 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 5.68% (33 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 5.16% (30 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 4.63% (27 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.89% (17.2 million US$): 51 - Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
• 2.69% (16 million US$): 41 - Raw hides and skins (other than fur skins) and leather

What did Afghanistan export in 2016?

Afghanistan's Top Exports in 2016:

• 16.1% ($96 million): 0806 - Grapes, fresh or dried
• 14.3% ($85 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
• 9.37% ($55 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 6.53% ($38 million): 5701 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings, knotted, whether or not made up
• 5.67% ($33 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 5.5% ($32 million): 1007 - Grain sorghum
• 4.1% ($24 million): 0909 - Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries
• 3.66% ($21 million): 0702 - Tomatoes, fresh or chilled
• 3.43% ($20 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12

Imports structure to Afghanistan in 2016 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 15.4% (1.01 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 15.4% (1 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.2% (668 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 6.27% (410 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 5.11% (334 million US$): 58 - Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace, tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
• 4.91% (321 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.84% (316 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 3.54% (231 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.52% (230 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.41% (223 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations

What did Afghanistan import in 2016?

Afghanistan's Top Imports in 2016:

• 10.1% ($664 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 9.15% ($598 million): 2703 - Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
• 5.11% ($334 million): 5808 - Braids in the piece; ornamental trimmings in the piece, without embroidery, other than knitted or crocheted; tassels, pompons and similar articles.
• 4.84% ($316 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
• 4.53% ($296 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 3.99% ($260 million): 9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
• 3.5% ($228 million): 8474 - Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand
• 2.4% ($156 million): 1806 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
• 2.28% ($149 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments