Afghanistan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Afghanistan in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 45% (400 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 12.1% (107 million US$): 13 - Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
• 10.1% (89 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10% (88 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 4.98% (44 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 4.27% (37 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 2.52% (22 million US$): 57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• 1.89% (16.7 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 1.69% (15 million US$): 41 - Raw hides and skins (other than fur skins) and leather
• 1.45% (12.8 million US$): 51 - Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric

What did Afghanistan export in 2018?

Afghanistan's Top Exports in 2018:

• 17.8% ($157 million): 0806 - Grapes, fresh or dried
• 12.1% ($107 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
• 10.1% ($89 million): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
• 9.7% ($85 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 7.66% ($67 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 7.41% ($65 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 5.34% ($47 million): 0702 - Tomatoes, fresh or chilled
• 2.97% ($26 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 2.52% ($22 million): 5701 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings, knotted, whether or not made up

Imports structure to Afghanistan in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 13% (969 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.4% (776 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 7.51% (556 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 5.6% (414 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 4.97% (368 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.57% (338 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 4.53% (335 million US$): 53 - Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabric of paper yarn
• 4.46% (330 million US$): 68 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
• 3.98% (294 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 3.63% (269 million US$): 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

What did Afghanistan import in 2018?

Afghanistan's Top Imports in 2018:

• 10.3% ($764 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 8.45% ($626 million): 2703 - Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
• 5.32% ($394 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
• 4.29% ($318 million): 5309 - Woven fabrics of flax
• 4.09% ($303 million): 6801 - Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate)
• 3.9% ($289 million): 9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
• 3.6% ($267 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 2.88% ($213 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 2.73% ($202 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form